Is it true that the organs of the dead APU soldiers are sold in a darknet?

In early August 2023, the plot about the sale of the Ukrainian military bodies was widely spread widely. We checked whether this information has actual reasons.

The message that “the bodies of the dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appeared in the assortment of one of the largest stores in the Darknet” on August 4 published a Telegram channel Mash (835,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). Among other things, the authors of Mash write that “to own or at least cooperate with the store, involved in the army of the liberation of Kosovo, one of the leaders of which is just judged for trade in the bodies of the dead Serbian soldiers.” Following Mash, such messages published, in particular, channels "Russia now"(300,000 views) and"Putin in Telegram"(171 000), and post official representative of the Ministry of Fores of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova (358,000) Shared TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov (207,000). Materials with reference and quotes from the Mash post were published by many Russian federal media (for example, "Moscow Komsomolets","Arguments and facts"And the TV channel"360"), And in"Russian newspaper"And on site The Russian Foreign Ministry published an article under the heading of the world leader in black transplantology behind the authorship of Zakharova, in which the speaker of the Russian diplomatic department directly quotes the Mash message.

There is really a marketplace called Anarchy 2029 in the Darknet, which Mash writes about and which offers to buy “Human organs from Ukraine” (Tor browser link). However, to call this trading platform one of the largest is unreasonable - at the time of writing, only about 20 goods are presented in the store: pistols and ammunition for them, three types of fake passports, bodies, as well as assistance services from Ukraine. For comparison, the assortment in ten The largest marketplaces are calculated by hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands of sentences. IN list Darknet’s main markets, compiled by Flashpoint, Anarchy 2029, which specializes in cybersecurity, is also not included. The site forum is absolutely empty, and review There is only one product. There are also no reviews on the site itself on specialized resources in Darknet. Search system data for Darknet AHMIA And manual checking of the site pages (at the addresses of the WordPress Files), allow us to say that all of them were created in May-June 2023. There are no traces of the existence of Anarchy 2029 in the previous period either in the darknet or in the open web. 

The authors of the anonymous Telegram channel "Toad and Viper" suggestedthat the site is used not for trade, but for phishing (theft of personal data), and several details indicate this at once. Firstly, the copy in the page of the page is illogical for an anonymous site selling weapons and false passports-apparently, it got to the Anarchy 2029 from the WordPress template, which was assembled by the marketplace, and it was simply forgotten to remove it. Secondly, all photos and descriptions of weapons are taken from open sources (for example, from "Wikipedia»For a pistol TT), What Uncharacteristic For sites in a darknet, where complete technical characteristics are usually given, and not advertising avenues. On the page on the sale of Glock 17 fourth generation, a photograph of non -firearms, but a pneumatic copy (this indicates this, was completely used BB marking In the title of the file loaded to the site). Thirdly, the process of transferring the order is not described on the Anarchy 2029, but in the form that is opened when trying to pay for goods from the basket, it is proposed to enter the real name, address and phone number of the buyer, which for illegal trade in the nonsense darkn, because its key advantage is anonymity. Unlike real sellers, scammers can request data.

Thus, it is impossible to even just call the ANARCHY 2029 site, as well as to say that any trade is being conducted on this site. The assessment of this store by the Mash channel as “one of the largest” is not true.

As for the seizure of donor authorities from the dead military, then in Ukraine it is prohibited law. Despite this, the plot about the "black" transplantology, supposedly prosperous in this country, It spreads not the first month and not even the first year. Materials on this topic regularly Published In Russian pro -government media, but each time their authors did not give any evidence confirming the reliability of the messages. Different Publications on this topic repeatedly Delassed The factor, and we could not find messages from international organizations about cases of trade in human bodies during a full -scale war in Ukraine. And this is not surprising: as already It wrote “Verified”, the process of transplantation is very complex and involves the participation of dozens of people, so it is almost impossible to hide illegal donation, especially in any large scale. It is almost impossible in the field, since this requires not only highly qualified personnel, but also equipment that will allow you to extract and save the organs, as well as transport that will deliver them to the recipient. In conditions of closed airspace over Ukraine, this is almost unattainable: maximum term The storage of organs between extracting and transplanting for the heart or lungs is four to six hours, the liver-12-15, the kidneys-36–48. 

Judging by the text on the ANARCHY 2029 website, its creators ignore medical information, offering “any organ” for € 5000. If you look at other sites in the darknet, offering similar “goods”, then you can find much more reliable options from the point of view of medicine. So, for example, one From the marketplaces offers the selection of the donor in accordance with the parameters (height, weight, blood type, etc.) and indicates that it will also be necessary to choose a place for the operation, and the body itself will pay separately. The prices for Southeast Asia are also given: the heart costs $ 15,000, light and kidney-$ 5,000, two light and two kidneys-$ 15,000 each, a fragment of the liver-$ 5000, a whole liver-$ 15,000.

Separately, it is worth noting the Mash reference to the trade of the Serbian prisoners of war of the Army of the Liberation of Kosov (AOK), which was quoted by Maria Zakharova. Indeed, this is Accusation addressed to former president of Kosovo Khashim Tachi and a number of Kosovo military were nominated twice, in 2003 and 2010 years, but at the moment it has been removed for absence evidence, the Hague tribunal judges former commanders of the army of the liberation of Kosov others accusations. Parallel investigation of the Special Mission of the EU showedthat the trade in the bodies in Kosovo was conducted, but not by the military, and in 2013, five involved were Convicted. The assertion that one of the leaders of the AOK is judged for trade in the bodies of the dead Serbian soldiers is false.

There is no reason to argue that Mash information about the sale of bodies from Ukraine is reliable. The site in the darknet, “selling the Ukrainian military”, exists, but all the data indicate that it was assembled on the knee specifically for the spread of a misinformation plot no earlier than May 2023. The publication of Mash also contains an unproven statement of involvement in the creation of a website of members of the Army of the Liberation of Kosovo and a false statement that one of the members of the ACs is judged precisely for the trade of the Serbian soldiers.

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