Pro-Russian Telegram channels are distributing a video claiming that a cemetery worker at the funeral of a Ukrainian soldier allegedly stole a PS5 gaming console from the coffin that the deceased soldier's relatives had placed there. The relatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier allegedly saw the gaming console on the OLX marketplace, recognizing it by the stickers on it. The seller allegedly turned out to be the cemetery worker who buried the soldier's coffin.

In fact, this video is another fake of Russian propaganda. The video itself is of low quality. For example, at first it says that the deceased soldier, whose PS5 was allegedly stolen, is Valerii Shpyrko, but later in the video he is mistakenly called Vitalii. In addition, there is no information in reliable and verified Ukrainian media that such an incident actually occurred. In the end, it is unclear how a cemetery worker could steal a game console measuring 39x26x10.4 cm (i.e. quite large) while burying a coffin so that it would remain unnoticed.

With this fake, the Russians are trying to sow distrust and discord among Ukrainian society. Moreover, by claiming that this serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly participated in the Kursk operation, “during which he stole the console and subsequently died”, Russian propagandists are fueling the narrative about the alleged looting of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region. Earlier, we analyzed a similar video fake, which consisted of the fact that the Territorial center of procurement and social support workers allegedly killed a student from Lviv, and then threw his body into the Tysa.