Russian propaganda Telegram channels are circulating photos allegedly depicting a rally in Kyiv involving the wives and children of Ukrainian military personnel participating in the Kursk operation. At the rally, children of Ukrainian soldiers are supposedly holding posters with slogans “Syrskyi, where is our dad?” and “Syrskyi, bring dad home!”.

This is actually fake news, writes the VoxCheck project. Thanks to Google’s reverse image search function, it was possible to find out that the photos distributed by propagandists are fabricated. In the original photos the inscriptions on the posters are different. The actual slogans were “For the Armed Forces of Ukraine!” and “Buy toys to help soldiers!”. One of the photos was taken in April 2022 in Odesa, the other in September 2022 in Kyiv. So in fact, the children from the photos did not rally against the AFU operation in the Kursk region, but collected funds to support Ukrainian fighters.

Earlier, we disproved the information that people in Zhytomyr had protested against Zelenskyi.