Russian sources are distributing a video in which journalist Yurii Butusov said at a rally that he was going to win a court case against Volodymyr Zelenskyi. Another protester, leader of the Democratic Axe party, Yurii Hudymenko, read out the protesters' demands, including Zelenskyi's resignation.

But this is manipulation. The video was distributed without specifying that the action took place in December 2021. Therefore, it could have been given the impression that the video was filmed in 2024. Since it was the Defend Ukraine — Stop the Coup action of December 1, 2021. The same shooting angle, Butusov’s identical clothes, the  Channel 5 logo at the top right — all this coincides in the original video and the excerpt that was taken out of context.

Butusov also stated in the video that he was going to file a lawsuit against the President of Ukraine “to refute those words that contain factual untruths”. The incident was about the incident when, on October 26, 2021, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a Russian D-30 howitzer with a drone in the uncontrolled part of Donbas.