A Russian Telegram channel is spreading information that Kyiv schools have begun replacing portraits of the current US President Joe Biden with portraits of the newly elected President Donald Trump. As “proof” of this, the propagandists are adding corresponding photos, allegedly taken in one of the Kyiv schools.

In fact, this information is not true, the VoxCheck project reports. The photos distributed by Russian propagandists are likely staged. There is no indication that they did anything in the Ukrainian school. It is even more surprising that on the stand dedicated to Britain, among the portraits of Elizabeth II and William Shakespeare, they placed photos of the presidents of the USA and Ukraine. In the end, it was possible to find out that these images were distributed exclusively in the pro-Russian segment of the network, which gives additional grounds to believe that this is a fake.

In Ukraine, the practice of placing portraits of presidents in school classrooms is not widespread. Back in 2016, the then Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Serhii Kvit, declared that it was unacceptable to place portraits of ministers and other civil servants in educational institutions. The Ministry of Education and Science recommended, first of all, to place state symbols, portraits of historical figures or graduates that educational institutions are proud of.

Earlier, we analyzed the lie that Trump was added to the “Peacemaker” database.