In August 2023, the network went around a photo of a document allegedly signed by the head of one of the Ukrainian units. It was claimed that the dead military would be burned in mobile crematoriums. We checked the authenticity of this paper.
According to information resources, a picture of the order allegedly given to the commander of the 123rd brigade of territorial defense of Ukraine has leaked to the Internet. According to this document, due to logistics problems, high losses of personnel and overflow of morgues, the commander’s deputies were ordered to organize the work of mobile crematoriums. Battalion commanders had to conduct explanatory conversations with military personnel about the need for their cremation in the event of death and receive appropriate written consent.
They wrote about this order "Komsomolskaya Truth","Russian newspaper" And "Arguments and facts", As well Newsland And Zmaps. The news spread widely in "VKontakte", The screenshot of the order was published by Telegram channels"Militarist"(493,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Solovyov"(393,000),"Dmitry Vasilet"(215 000),"Ostashko! Important"(123,000) and"Ukraine.ru"(92 000).
The topic of overflowing the morgues, lack of places in cemeteries and the use of mobile crematoriums regularly rises in the news about the war in Ukraine. One of the reasons is the absence of open official data on own losses on both sides, which allows propaganda to throw information that supposedly indirectly confirming the fact of underestimation of these numbers by the enemy. So, in early March 2022, the network Get out The video, which stated that the Russian army in Ukraine uses mobile crematoriums to destroy traces of losses among military personnel. As soon It turned out, the video was shot back in 2013 by the developer company itself, it captures the burning of garbage; Previously, the video has already been used as a certificate of burning military bodies in the Donbass (2014), sanctions products (2015) and vaccination victims from Covid-19 (2021). On the other hand, our colleagues from VOKS Ukraina sorted out manipulative news that in the cemetery in Kharkov End of burial places ended, about creating in Kyiv military cemetery for 100,000 - 200,000 seats, as well as about requirement of relatives The military from the Azov brigade increase the number of cemeteries in Ukraine.
In the publications about the order of the commander of the 123rd brigade as indirect confirmation of the news, the circulating in the Russian media in February 2023 was used in February 2023 information About 200 mobile crematoriums for pets transferred by the Federal Republic of Germany - the Ukrainian authorities allegedly intended to use them for other purposes. However, this information is not found either in German or Ukrainian authoritative sources and, apparently, became the fruit of the fantasy of the propaganda media.
We turn directly to the document, the photograph of which has spread over the network. You may notice that its text appears in two different languages: English and Ukrainian.
However, the use of English in the official documentation in the Ukrainian army looks strange, and upon closer examination it turns out that this is just the result of use "Yandex translator»With the recognition of the text on the images.
The military unit A7052 mentioned in the header of the order is really corresponds 123rd separate brigade of territorial defense. However, the code 07849800 in the Unified State Register of Enterprises and Organizations of Ukraine. absent. Real The brigade code is 26623365.
The commander of the 123rd brigade open sources really called Roman Tokarenko, whose surname appears under the order. At the same time, our colleagues from Stopfake Published a photograph of another document on which the signature of the colonel looks completely different.
Spelling error deserves special attention: the word "period" is written in Russian (in Ukrainian Right - "Banner").
Finally, the information distributed refuted On page 123rd brigade on Facebook, calling it "another Russian information and psychological operation."
Walking news on the network began on the morning of August 18 with a pro-Russian Telegram channel "Kherson Bulletin". He is already Not once was noticed in distribution Non-existent orders of the commander of the 123rd brigade participating in hostilities in the south of Ukraine. This fact and the aforementioned arguments allow us to say that this time we are dealing with a fake.
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