The occupying authorities in Kherson and the region used photographs of children from the Kyiv region on propaganda billboards. A resident of the Kyiv region, professional photographer Hanna Pasichnyk recognized her children on pro-Russian posters that appeared in Kherson no later than July 18, writes BBC Ukraine. Hanna Pasichnyk sold a photo session with her son and his best friend on the website of the Shutterstock photo bank. The children were standing on a flowering field of rapeseed in embroidered shirts. “Children are asking for support for Ukraine,” that is the description of the photo in English. Pictures with children in vyshyvankas (embroidered shirts) will later appear on billboards in occupied Kherson. Russian propaganda used her photo without permission. “Russia is here forever!”, “Kherson is forever with Russia”, “Kherson is a Russian city,” photos of billboards with such slogans were published by the pro-Russian public Kherson.ru a few weeks later. The Russian flag was photoshopped behind the children's backs, and yellow rapeseed flowers were replaced with a flower meadow. Subsequently, photos of a damaged billboard in Kherson appeared on the network. In the inscription "Kherson - forever with Russia" the unknown painted over the letters "son" in the name of the city. On August 24, Hanna published a post on Instagram in which she publicly spoke out against the use of her photos in occupied Kherson: “[Russia] takes photos of my happy children in embroidered shirts, despicably photoshops their bloody dirty flag, writes a false, hateful slogan and hangs it in Ukrainian Kherson, from which you want, excuse me, to jerk ... " After this publication, Hanna says, residents of the occupied Kherson began to write to her, who, she says, got angry: they say that the Russians dressed their children in our embroidered shirts and now they say that we want to go to Russia. “Now they are writing to me: thank you for telling all this, because it was very disgusting for us to see it. Now we understand that they didn’t even take pictures of anything,” she says.