DISINFO: Mother of deceased Ukrainian soldier writes "illegally mobilised" on her son's tombstone

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DISINFO: Mother of deceased Ukrainian soldier writes "illegally mobilised" on her son's tombstone

SUMMARY

The hunt for potential suicide soldiers continues on the streets of Ukrainian cities and villages. Despair and bitterness of loss cover the country. The war of Ukrainians against the territorial centre of recruitment's man-catchers is growing. A desperate resident of Brovary in the Kyiv region wrote "illegally mobilised" on her son's tombstone, but the local court ruled that the inscription must be destroyed.

RESPONSE

Pro-Kremlin disinformation about war in Ukraine, involving fabricated pictures of the tombstone inscription and a sentence from a Ukrainian court.

According to the mayor of Brovary, Ihor Sapozhko, a serviceman named Oleinik Hryhoriy Vyacheslavovych is not, and was not, on the lists of the dead or among those buried on the Alley of Glory in Brovary. The surname Oleinik does not sound Ukrainian, but Russian. The Ukrainian form of a similar surname would be Oliynik, as noted by StopFake.

Regarding the picture of "the sentence of the court" ordering the destruction of the inscription, aired by a pro-Kremlin media outlet, it contains multiple grammatical errors in Ukrainian. Some words are inflected incorrectly, while others are written incorrectly altogether. Illogical sentences in the document coincide with those proposed by machine translation into Ukrainian, StopFake noted.

The key Russian state outlets have a track record of fabricating so-called "news" about emotional topics using false or manipulated images or using actors pretending to be eyewitnesses or other gross violations of basic internationally recognised journalistic standards. See examples here and here.

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