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  • 2022-03-01 (xsd:date)
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  • ‘Digital Billboards in Ukraine’ – Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • ‘Digital Billboards in Ukraine’ Claim Digital billboard in Kyiv: 'Russia soldier, stop! Putin has lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands.' Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting On March 1 2022, a popular Imgur post titled Digital billboard in Kyiv: ‘Russia soldier, stop! Putin has lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands' purportedly showed messages on Ukraine billboards visible to invading Russian troops: On Twitter, the above image was shared by Adam Parkhomenko at 10:39 AM on February 28 2022. A translation read, Putin lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands: New sign in Kyiv: Putin lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands. pic.twitter.com/MZNFz3ZkPB — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) February 28, 2022 At 2:20 PM, journalist Ilya Lozovsky tweeted about digital billboards reportedly in Kyiv, including a second photograph with a slightly different message: Digital billboards reportedly in Kyiv: Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die Russia soldier, stop! Putin has lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands. Russian soldier, stop! Remember your family. Return home with a clean conscience. pic.twitter.com/RVSfQmXtwd — Ilya Lozovsky (@ichbinilya) February 28, 2022 Lozovsky also included translations for both, which read: Russia soldier, stop! Putin has lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands. Russian soldier, stop! Remember your family. Return home with a clean conscience. In the comments of Parkhomenko’s tweet, another user offered a minor edit to the translation: Minor edit – 'Leave without our blood on your hands. Or your blood flowing on our streets.' — Michael Strauss (@Earth_Media_) March 1, 2022 Variations of the posts also appeared on Reddit’s r/ukraine and r/DamnThatsInteresting : Digital billboard in Kyiv: Russia soldier, stop! Putin has lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands. from ukraine Google Translate from English to Russian for the first image — Russian soldier, stop! Putin lost and the whole world stands with Ukraine! Leave Ukraine without blood on your hands — returned the following translation. It was very similar but not exact, with matching text bolded: Русский солдат , стой! Путин проиграл и весь мир на стороне Украины! Оставьте Украину без крови на руках Inputting Russian soldier, stop! Remember your family. Return home with a clean conscience returned the following text in Russian: Русский солдат , стой! Вспомни свою семью . Вернуться домой с чистой совестью Google Translate interpreted крови на руках as blood on the hands. Yandex’s image translation function provided partial translations for both signs: A February 28 2022 Yahoo News article described four billboards with similar messaging, translated from Russian to English: Russian soldiers are not welcome here. Instead of flowers, expect bullets. Go away to your family! Russian soldier, stop. Putin lost. The whole world stands with Ukraine. Go away without blood on your hands. Russian soldier, stop. Don’t kill your soul for Putin’s oligarchs. Go away without blood on your hands. Russian soldier, stop. How will you be able to look your kids in the eyes? Go away! Stay human. That reporting cited Associated Press reporter Francesca Ebel, who shared video of the flashing signs in Kyiv: Screens in #Kyiv now flashing messages for potential Russian invaders/saboteurs. Don’t have bandwidth rn to translate each mssg ( @WarTranslation over to you) but the gist of it is — leave without blood on your hands, don’t kill for the sake of Putin! pic.twitter.com/gTfX2BQLJS — Francesca Ebel (@FrancescaEbel) February 28, 2022 In her tweet, Ebel tagged the novel Twitter account War in Translation/@WarTranslation for English versions of the billboards. The account obliged with a captioned video, which matched the translations used by Yahoo News, which didn’t provide a source for the translated messages: In lieu of adverts (Feb 28, 2022) Messages to Russian soldiers flashing on Kyiv billboards, captured by the great @FrancescaEbel Original: https://t.co/73sRMqAoUn pic.twitter.com/AUbNUE0YOq — War in Translation (@WarTranslation) February 28, 2022 Viral images of digital billboards in Ukraine with messages that the whole world stands with Ukraine and urging Russian soldiers to leave without blood on your hands circulated across several social media platforms. Associated Press reporter Francesca Ebel captured video of the signs in Kyiv, and tweeted them on February 28 2022. @WarTranslation captioned the video with translations from Russian to English, showing four distinct messages in total. Article Sources + Digital billboard in Kyiv: Russia soldier, stop! Putin has lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands. New sign in Kyiv: Putin lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands. | Adam Parkhomenko/Twitter Digital billboards reportedly in Kyiv: Russia soldier, stop! Putin has lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands. Russian soldier, stop! Remember your family. Return home with a clean conscience. | Ilya Lozovsky/Twitter Minor edit - 'Leave without our blood on your hands. Or your blood flowing on our streets.' | Michael Strauss/Twitter Digital billboard in Kyiv: Russia soldier, stop! Putin has lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands. | Reddit Digital billboard in Kyiv: Russia soldier, stop! Putin has lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands. | Reddit Russian soldier, stop! Putin lost and the whole world stands with Ukraine! Leave Ukraine without blood on your hands | Google Translate Русский солдат, стой! Путин проиграл и весь мир на стороне Украины! Оставьте Украину без крови на руках | Google Translate Russian soldier, stop! Remember your family. Return home with a clean conscience | Google Translate Русский солдат, стой! Вспомни свою семью. Вернуться домой с чистой совестью | Google Translate крови на руках | Google Translate Yandex | Translate image Billboards in Kyiv are flashing messages to Russian soldiers, telling them to 'go away without blood on your hands' Screens in #Kyiv now flashing messages for potential Russian invaders/saboteurs. Don’t have bandwidth rn to translate each mssg ( @WarTranslation over to you) but the gist of it is — leave without blood on your hands, don’t kill for the sake of Putin! | Francesca Ebel/Twitter In lieu of adverts (Feb 28, 2022) Messages to Russian soldiers flashing on Kyiv billboards, captured by the great @FrancescaEbel | @WarTranslation/Twitter Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged digital billboards ukraine , hacked road signs , imgur , russia invades ukraine , russian soldier stop , ukraine , viral tweets (en)
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