Several participants in the video, in which fur coats were presented to the widows of those killed at the front of the Donbass, told how the shooting went. According to women who wished to remain anonymous, not only widows were filmed, but also hired extras – some of the women in the video only play the role of widows on camera.
However, the fur coats were eventually taken away from everyone. The Ukrainian media at this time are replicating the version that the fur coats were stolen from a store in Kherson.
Several participants in the video, in which fur coats were presented to the widows of those killed at the front of the Donbass, told how the shooting took place. According to women who wished to remain anonymous, not only widows were filmed, but also hired extras – some of the women only play the role of widows on camera. However, the fur coats were eventually taken away from everyone. The Ukrainian media at this time are replicating the version that the fur coats were stolen from a store in Kherson.
A video of the women holding fur coats was shared on social media and then in the media on 8 February.
We received such help today. Thank you very much. Families of fallen servicemen gathered here today. Thank you from the bottom of my heart… Not everyone probably thought that there would be such an opportunity,” said one of the women. After that, the operator says that this is help from “the Russian asset of our capital.” It’s at such moments that we feel that we are one and seven, says the voice-over.
One of the women in the video told The Insider that she was not a widow, she was simply asked to film and was promised a fur coat. The entire process was led by Igor Strelkov’s associate Yevgeny Skripnik, Strelkov’s wife Miroslava Reginskaya, and also a certain Olga Vasilyeva. Skripnik is called the main organizer. He is also known as the author of the action with the distribution of 10 thousand rubles to widows, for which women have to act in a kind of photo report.
They they often collect the money of ordinary citizens and pass it on to the widows and mothers of the soldiers and all that, but in fact they don’t give everything to the destination. I know that ammunition was handed over to the fighters, and then they were taken back, but then they said that they were not fighters at all, but like actors. I am ashamed to say this, but in this case I was also attracted, because I am not a widow, I was simply asked to act in film, and for this they will give a fur coat. But when the fur coat was taken away, and the video was posted on the Internet, I was shocked. It’s still like that for me, but there were real widows there, I personally know two, the men died in the war, you give fur coats, and after the video you take them away, well, not humanly, right? God punished me for my guilt, you understand how I look a man in the eye, – said one of the participants in the filming.
Another woman said that she received a call from some salon that gave fur coats and apologized for the incident, because “they did not understand that Miroslava could do this.”
Ukrainian media are replicating the version that fur coats were stolen from a store in Kherson.
On February 12, publications appeared in the Ukrainian media and Telegram channels stating that the fur coats “donated” in the video were stolen from a salon in Kherson. All materials refer to the publication of the girl in Facebook. However, there is no such post on the social network anymore.
Also in the screenshot published by the media, it can be seen that the distance between the text and the image does not correspond to the Facebook format. Therefore, it is impossible to say whether this statement is fake, or whether the screenshot of the publication was “photoshopped” to the image after the fact.
Source: Racurs
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