In May 2023, Russian media and blogs reported that Ukrainian citizens living in Estonia were called to military training, and in the event of a refusal, they threatened to send from the country. We decided to check if this is true.
On May 11, Russian Telegram channels appeared that employees of the country's embassy in Estonia began to call citizens of Ukraine with a demand to pass two-week fees “in case of hostilities”. In case of refusal of the service of Ukrainians, they allegedly promised to deport, referring to the corresponding agreements between Tallinn and Kyiv. This was written as the media, for example ""Tsargrad" And "Notebook", And Telegram channels, including"Ukraine.ru"(95,000 views at the time of publication of analysis) and"New 🅉 Ukraine❗️"(35,000). Wrote about this and in "VKontakte".
The earliest publication in Telegram, which managed to find “verified”, is an entry in the Telegram channel ”Notepad Russia", Posted at 10:50 Moscow time. At the same time, the news appeared on site "Notepad". The publication did not bring any evidence of the published information, there were no links to sources. Judging by the publication, reports of military fees allegedly proceeded from Ukrainian diplomats, who, as the notebook claimed, personally called the fellow citizens.
Ukrainian factory -based stopfake site on the same day, May 11, Turned For clarifications directly to the Embassy of Ukraine in Tallinn.
The response of the Embassy of Ukraine says the following: “On your letter regarding the stated in the mentioned articles and the information common in social networks about the so -called“ call of Ukrainians in Estonia for two -week military training camps, personal calls of the Ukrainian Embassy in the Estonian Republic to Ukrainians about this with threats with a possible return to their homeland ”[We answer that this is not true and is another example Fake News of the aggressor country. "
In the second part of the letter, the Embassy of Ukraine recalls that issues of military accounting, including abroad, are regulated by government decree of December 30, 2022. In this document (paragraph 52) it is indicated that the diplomatic representatives of Ukraine abroad can be: 1) to inform citizens who are on temporary consular accounting, who have reached conscription age and do not have a deferral about the beginning of the draft for military service; 2) contribute to the return of military persons and reservists to Ukraine during the period of mobilization and during martial law; 3) notify the centers of the set, the SBU or the foreign intelligence service on the setting for consular registration or the removal of conscripts from it, military liable for liability and reservists; 4) keep military registration of conscripts, military liability and reservists, which are on temporary consular records. Thus, the current regulatory documents of Ukraine do not provide for the passage of the service or military training in the army of another state.
There is no information about military training and on a special site Kriis.eecreated in Estonia for the needs of refugees from Ukraine. In addition, in Estonian "The law on defense"(Paragraph 47) it is directly stated that foreign citizens, including refugees, are exempted from duties to maintain the country's defense capacity.
Thus, there is no evidence of information that in Estonia Ukrainians are supposedly forced to take military training. In addition, laws of both Ukraine and Estonia do not provide for this. It is also worth noting that in January 2023, Russian media and blogs distributed Similar fakes - that the authorities of Latvia, Lithuania and Great Britain, at the request of Ukrainian diplomats, allegedly began to identify potential conscripts among refugees from Ukraine.
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