Propagandists fabricated a supposed “investigation” allegedly conducted by the hacker group Anonymous, using the name of a Ukrainian media outlet as cover. The fake was debunked by fact-checkers at Ukrinform.

A video bearing the logo of the English-language version of the website and YouTube channel of the Ukrainian outlet NV is being actively circulated by Russian media and propaganda Telegram channels. The video claims that hackers from Anonymous allegedly breached the database of Rosreestr (Russia’s state real estate registry) and discovered information about a Russian passport belonging to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, supposedly issued to him in 2015 in occupied Crimea. In addition, based on these alleged passport details, the hackers claim to have found luxury apartments owned by Zelenskyy in the Moscow City complex, valued at nearly two million dollars.

However, this is a fake. No such material exists on the NV website or on the outlet’s English-language YouTube channel, where the most recent video was published four weeks ago.

The image of the passport copy is also a forgery. The photograph that Russian propagandists inserted into the document using photo-editing software was taken from President Zelenskyy’s video address on February 23, 2022, recorded just hours before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and concerned Russia’s recognition of the so-called “L/DPR”.

The claim that Zelenskyy owns real estate in Moscow is likewise false, as it is based solely on this fabricated passport copy.

It is worth noting that this is not the first time Kremlin propagandists have spread rumors about a fake Russian passport allegedly belonging to Zelenskyy. In 2022, they already published a similar “document”, supposedly issued in the Moscow region back in 2001.

This fake is aimed at discrediting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.