The video message of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, made, as stated, in the center of Kyiv, was actually filmed using a chroma key, the telegram channel “War against fakes” reported.
According to the authors of the post, the background and the Zelensky figure itself differ both in lighting and image quality.
“The background “lives its own life”, there is solid static, there is not a single object in dynamics. The quality of the video sequence is lowered to hide the shortcomings of post-production. <…> The lighting on the layers does not match. The object is in cold light, the background is in warm. Perhaps, the object was illuminated with additional light sources,” they noted.
It is also noticeable that at the very beginning of the video, part of Zelensky’s left shoulder “disappears”, an artificial background peeps through it; the sound in the video is too “clean”, you can’t hear the internoise typical for shooting outdoors, the weather conditions are not taken into account. According to the authors of the telegram channel, it is cold in Kyiv in the evening, but Zelensky does not have steam from his mouth.
The Ukrainian side is regularly spreading fakes. Earlier, the former press secretary of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Yulia Mendel, was convicted of trying to pass off a picture of firefighters from Australia as Ukrainians on social networks. The Russian Ministry of Defense also pointed to the production of the SBU, in which residents of Chernihiv were demonstrated “shot by Russian servicemen”. Major-General Igor Konashenkov emphasized that there were no Russian military personnel in the city, and that the footage itself showed signs of forgery.