On the social media "Telegram" from the Serbian-language account "БУНТ је стънде духа" (Albanian: rebellion is a state of mind), two photographs were published showing the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, painted in graffiti form, eating body parts of soldiers.
After fact-checking by the platform “LeadStories.com”, it has been confirmed that these graffiti do not exist, but are manipulated images. (see here)
Link to the post published on Telegram by the account “BUNT je stanje dukha”:
The post's caption translated into Albanian:
Graffiti appeared in Berlin and Paris depicting Zelensky eating his soldiers.
It seems that in the West, the common world is increasingly seeing who and what Zelensky is.
In one of the photos posted on Telegram, the domain of the German media outlet "Deutche Welle" (DW.com), which suggests that the photo was published by this medium.
However, LeadStories.com has confirmed that this article was never published by this medium.
The same article was also published in English, on the social media X (formerly Twitter). (see here)
Fact-checkers from “LeadStories” through the “Google Maps Street View” application have confirmed that the building shown in the photograph is not located in Berlin, as claimed, but rather appears at the address “4 Ignacego Potockiego” in Warsaw, Poland. (see here)
Analyze:
The Serbian-language Telegram account “БУНТ је стънде духа” has published photos showing graffiti depicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a cannibal eating soldiers’ body parts. The graffiti allegedly appeared in Berlin.
Fact-checkers from the platform “LeadStories” have confirmed that such graffiti does not exist in Berlin and that the photos are manipulated. Also, the building seen in the image is not in Berlin, but in Warsaw, Poland. This post is rated as “Fake News”.
Reasoning:
The "Fake News" rating is given to media reports that are entirely the product of a medium that itself contains factually incorrect claims or information.
Content that is considered fake news can be reliably determined to have been created and distributed with the intent to misinform the public, i.e., to present a claim that is completely false as fact.