![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) * WhatsApp service * About Us ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) ## No research from Bellingcat # BBC video about severance pay for Ukrainian general is fake March 18, 2024, 4:26 p.m. (CET) There have been several fake videos featuring the BBC logo in recent months appeared. The clips all had a connection to Ukraine. Now something is circulating new fake - about Valery Zalushnyj. The Ukrainian general Valeriy Zalushnyj arrived at the beginning of February Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been dismissed. In this There is now an alleged video on social networks British BBC surfaced: According to the clip, Saluschnyj is supposed to be a severance payment received an unofficial payment of $53 million. I have that Research collective Bellingcat found out, it is said. The payment is part an agreement for which Saluzhnyj renounced his political ambitions renounce and leave the country. Are the information and video real? ## Evaluation The clip is a fake. A BBC journalist posted this on Platform X clarified. Bellingcat also stated that there was no such research published. ## Facts In the video there is the British logo in the upper left corner of the picture public broadcaster BBC. On the BBC website can be found about the alleged severance payment of 53 million dollars for Saluzhnyj but can't find any information. No wonder: As the dpa learned from BBC circles, this is the clip namely a fake. This was previously done by Shayan Sardarizadeh, Verification journalist at the BBC, clarified on X (formerly Twitter). Bellingcat also commented on the fake video via X and spoke of one “fake report that contains no real Bellingcat research.” So There are also none on the research collective's website Reports on the alleged Saluzhny severance payment. More fakes with BBC logo and Bellingcat references in circulation In the past few months there have been similar fake videos online BBC logo appeared. This is what circulated shortly after the terrorist attacks Islamist Hamas released a fake clip about one in Israel on October 7th other supposed research from Bellingcat. As a result, Ukraine would have Hamas allegedly supplies NATO weapons. But Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins then declared that the video was “100 percent fake.” In the following months, the research collective and BBC journalists did Sardarizadeh's attention to further counterfeits. It has until mid-January 2024 There were at least five different fake clips - all of them had loud Sardarizadeh has a connection to Ukraine. Also the fake clip about Saluzhnyj fits the observation that it was written primarily via pro-Russian accounts spread. As Deutsche Welle (DW) reported in 2022, the Russian one Propaganda, among other things, on the spread of media fakes. These aim According to experts, this leads to distrust of well-known news media and exploit their credibility to spread disinformation. In addition to the BBC, other media companies are affected, as is dpa- Fact checks show. Who is behind the fake BBC video about the alleged However, the severance payment is unclear. Unsubstantiated allegations about Valeriy Zalushnyj linked to truth Regardless of the fake clip, there are no other clues find an unofficial severance package for the general. On the contrary: Ukrainian In this context, the media reports on a warning from the state Center for Combating Disinformation. The state news agency Ukrinform also found the images used for the fake online. In the meantime, it is true that Valery Saluschnyj is the new ambassador to... Great Britain should become. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj said: had spoken out in favor of appointing Saluzhny to the post Foreign Ministry in Kyiv announced at the beginning of March. After almost two years of Russian aggression, President Zelenskyj... February 8, 2024 Saluschnyj, who is very popular with the people, than the previous one Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces dismissed. The two were always last again a broken relationship of trust is said. In that context Misinformation also made the rounds, such as a deepfake of Saluschnyj. A manipulated image of one was also circulating around the dismissal invented graffiti. (As of: March 18, 2024) ## Links Search BBC website (archived) BBC journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh on X (archived) Bellingcat about the fake video on X (archived) Search on Bellingcat website (archived) Eliot Higgins on X on forgery in October 2023 (archived) Correctiv fact check on fake video (archived) Sardarizadeh on fifth fake video (archived) Distribution via pro-Russian Telegram channel (archived) DW about media fakes from pro-Russian pens (archived) dpa fact check on fake Euronews report Warning from the Center to Combat Disinformation (archived) Ukrinform about the images used (archived) Statement from the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (archived) dpa report via “t-online” about personnel changes from February 8, 2024 (archived) dpa fact check on Saluschnyj deepfake dpa fact check on graffiti with Zelenskyj in a clown costume X-Post with video (archived / archived fake video) ### About dpa fact checks This fact check was carried out as part of the Facebook/Meta independent program Fact check created. 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There is a real video from Bellingcat and the BBC about a 53 million settlement for exUkraine army chief Valery Zalushny