In early July, many Telegram channels reported that Dmitry Shkrebets joins the Armed Forces of Ukraine, namely, the legion of Russian volunteers and prisoners of war who crossed the side of Ukraine. The man allegedly reported this in his social networks. We checked this story for reliability.

April 14, 2022 in the Black Sea Sounded Russian missile cruiser Moscow. By message The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, one crew member died while trying to extinguish a fire on the ship, 27 more military personnel were missing, and the remaining 396 people were evacuated. Egor Shkrebets turned out to be one of the missing, as his mother was told about Irina and father Dmitrywhich is in social networks became Lay out other information about flooding.

On July 4, Telegram extended the screenshot of the post of Dmitry Shrebz from VKontakte of the following content: “There is no more strength for this lie. I understood everything. I understood everything for a long time, but I lacked the courage to admit that it was my fault. I supported a war that should never have begun, and paid for this the highest price. My family is no more. There is only one correct choice. I made it. I inform those who followed my fate: I am no longer in Russia, went to the third country and go to Ukraine to join "Legion" Freedom of Russia "." They are already waiting for me there. Finally, everything fell into place. "

So, at the time of writing this text, the record with a screenshot (sometimes without it) is placed in the following channels: "Where in Kharkov" (more than 29,000 views), "Real Belarus" (21,000), "Says Ukraine" (8000), "Belarusian nail!" (50,000), "Dombro News" (20,000), "Basta!" (16,000), "Look for your" (141 000), "Onews Ukraine" (99,000), "Online News of Ukraine" (35,000), "100’l" (14,000), "Moscow Telegraph" (23,000), "Sanctions of the Russian Federation" (95,000). And in these channels the post was deleted: "Ukraine 24/7" (at least 5000 at the time of removal) and "Observer" (9000). The news is also found on VKontakte (examples here, here And here) and twitter (here, here And here).

This entry absent On the Shkrabz page on VKontakte. We also could not find any mention of joining the Legion in his Telegram channel "Cruiser" Moscow "will speak". Of course, Shkrebets could delete the original post, and, judging by the absence of many publications, whose screenshots have different media screenshots, he has repeatedly deleted old posts and photographs. However, earlier he expressed his negative attitude towards this legion.

So, in the social networks of Dmitry, we only found One post About the "Legion" Freedom of Russia ", he published it two weeks ago, June 23. Record consists of quoting text The Baza Telegram channel about the detention of a man who was going to join this legion, and the commentary of the Shkrebets himself. According to him, he was offered to join the legion and “they even wrote how to contact him,” but Dmitry clearly did not like the idea: “I did not even answer these hammadrils.”

Screenshot of the post on VKontakte. Source

Find the source of the news about the introduction of the shcrebits. request In Google, the answer was at the first link in the issuance. It turned out that the fake screenshot of the post is the inventions of the “panorama”, but not only the famous satirical information agency. There is the same name on the TJ website chapter, in the description of which it is indicated: "The unofficial department" Panorama "." It is there July 3 at 22:58 Moscow time user Wild carrot Published your fake screenshot. At the same time, a disclaimer is located under the picture: “This news is only a parody of reality. All characters and events are invented, any coincidences are random. ”