{"id":113170,"date":"2022-03-09T18:09:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=113170"},"modified":"2022-03-09T18:09:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:39:15","slug":"no-man-in-this-video-is-not-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-man-in-this-video-is-not-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy\/","title":{"rendered":"No, man in this video is not Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has become one of the major figures on the world stage since Russia’s invasion of his country and his decision to stay in the capital Kyiv<\/a> despite American help to evacuate.<\/p>\n

Since then, on several occasions, Zelenskyy has been accused of fleeing\/ abandoning the country. He has debunked these claims by posting videos from his office<\/a> over the past few weeks. This has led to praises pouring in for Zelenskyy from different corners of the world<\/a>, turning him into an icon.<\/p>\n

But a section of social media users has shared a video of a sexually-explicit comedy skit performed on a reality TV show with the claim that the comedian is the Ukrainian President. It must be noted that Zelenskyy is a former actor and comedian.<\/p>\n

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\n\u0928\u092f\u0947 \u0935\u0948\u0936\u094d\u0935\u093f\u0915 \u0939\u0940\u0930\u094b, \u092c\u0941\u0926\u094d\u0927\u0942\u091c\u0940\u0935\u0940 – \u0932\u093f\u092c\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923\u094d\u0921 – \u090f\u0932\u0940\u091f \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091c \u0915\u0947 \u0928\u092f\u0947 \u091c\u0940\u091c\u0942, \u092e\u0939\u093e\u0928 \u092f\u094b\u0926\u094d\u0927\u093e, \u0935\u093f\u0936\u094d\u0935 \u0915\u0940 \u0927\u0941\u0930\u0940, \u0918\u094b\u0921\u093c\u093e-\u0917\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0932\u093f\u0915….
\n\u092f\u0942\u0915\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0928 \u0915\u0947 \u092e\u0939\u093e\u0928 \u0930\u093e\u0937\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0930\u092a\u0924\u093f – \u0935\u094b\u0932\u094b\u0926\u092f\u092e\u093f\u0930 \u091c\u093c\u0932\u0947\u0902\u0938\u094d\u0915\u094d\u092f!
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\n\u0928\u092e\u0928 \u0939\u0948, \u0938\u093e\u0937\u094d\u091f\u093e\u0902\u0917!\ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 pic.twitter.com\/w3jnFFY1xk<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rajput Digamber (@RajputDigamber1) February 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\u0928\u092e\u0928 \u0939\u0948, \u0938\u093e\u0937\u094d\u091f\u093e\u0902\u0917!!!! pic.twitter.com\/BnHCRanTMB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \u0930\u093e\u091c\u0947\u0902\u0926\u094d\u0930 \u0938\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0939\u093e #108\u0935\u093e\u0926\u0940\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@Rajendr48259475) February 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ukrainian President \ud83d\ude44\ud83d\ude07\ud83d\ude0b\ud83e\udd2a\ud83d\ude1c<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Eminent Woke #IStandWith_______ (@WokePandemic) February 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The video is also viral on Facebook<\/a> with the same Hindi caption.<\/p>\n

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Posted by \u0930\u0924\u0928 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0936 \u092e\u094c\u0930\u094d\u092f<\/a> on Monday, 28 February 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Not Zelenskyy<\/h4>\n

We broke the video down into keyframes and performed a reverse image search of one of the stills using Yandex. This led us to a blog<\/a> where the same video was available with Russian captions.<\/p>\n

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Upon translation<\/a>, we found that the video was part of a Ukrainian TV show called “League of Laughter”. Taking that as a clue, we looked for the performance on the YouTube channel<\/a> of League of Laughter (\u041b\u0438\u0433\u0430 \u0421\u043c\u0435\u0445\u0430) and found that the video was uploaded on October 21, 2017.<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oF_KF1aXwP8]<\/p>\n

We noticed that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in the show but he appears at the beginning for a few seconds as the host, then one of the judges takes over and announces the performance.<\/p>\n

We also checked the description of the video which reads, “League of Laughter 2017, the second game of the 1\/4 finals, Vinnitsa team”. Taking that as a clue we performed a keyword search<\/a> for “Team Vinnitsa” and came across a blog<\/a> that described the team in detail. The blog identifies the man in the video as “Vasily Gumenyuk – actor and vocal voice of the group.”<\/p>\n

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We looked for Vasily Gumenyuk in Russian (\u0412\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u0438\u0439 \u0413\u0443\u043c\u0435\u043d\u044e\u043a) on Google and came across several news reports<\/a> about him. Vasily was appointed as the head<\/a> of the Yarmolinetsk Regional State Administration in the Khmelnytsky region by Zelenskyy in February 2020.<\/p>\n