Is it true that Vladimir Zelensky threatened to return all Ukrainian men from the West?

At the end of February 2024, the network cost the screenshot of emotional tweet, allegedly made by the President of Ukraine. We checked whether this screenshot is genuine.

If you believe the screenshot, in the English -language tweet of Zelensky it was said: “I will sign a decree that will require from all Western countries to deport Ukrainian men who live there back to Ukraine. We need more men to fight, and you guys hang out and smoke hookah in other countries? If we make common efforts, this war will end in a week. ”

The statement that allegedly appeared on Zelensky’s page in X was distributed by Russian media such as "Podolyaka","Kherson news feed" And "VK press". It also dispersed on the Telegram platform - in particular, through the channels "Sanya in Florida"(450,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Russia now"(228 000),"Uncle Glory"(184 000),"Zlaya Prof"(166 000),"Putin in Telegram"(157 000) and Voblya (138 000).

The problem of lack of manpower faces the Ukrainian army almost from the very beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion. At the end of November 2023, an adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Sergey Leshchenko described The deficit of the soldiers as “huge” and stated that it was necessary to carry out rotation and tighten the reserves. And a little later Zelensky himself during a press conference Clarified: APU command offers additionally mobilizing another 450,000 - 500,000 people. Nevertheless, universal mobilization, announced In the country on February 24, 2022, to this day continues according to the same scheme - recently Zelensky declaredThat it will not be tightened until the end of the audit of the armed forces, which should conduct the new commander in the air forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces.

The official account of the President of Ukraine in X - @zelenskyyua. As of February 27 on page, which Zelensky leads in English, there are no publications that at least reminiscent of the desired one. There is no news about his loud statement on the sites of the Ukrainian media. At the same time, the very formulation of the future legislative act is perplexed: “A decree that will require to deport all Western countries ...” The action of the Decree of the President of Ukraine cannot extend to foreign states.

It is also striking that the surname of the head of the Ukrainian state on a viral screenshot and in an official account is written in different ways: Zelensky and Zelensky, respectively. In addition, in the ID of the second account after the surname there is a lower emphasis.

The thing is that the source of the information is another X-account, @Zelenskyy_uaa, where the publication appeared February 26 at 03:57 Moscow time was picked up by Russian and pro-Russian Telegram channels. This page is directly served as satirical - the full name of the account looks like “Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Volodymyr Zelensky”, and the description is Parody Account. The page of the false-Zelensky is full of frivolous publications.

According to the TGSTAT service, the first on Telegram this screenshot about an hour after the release of the original tweet was published by the channel "Sanya in Florida"(More than 3000 reposts), Not once Closed by the factory, “tested” in the spread of inaccurate information about Ukraine.

On the same day, the screenshot reacted to "Center for Combating Disinformation»Under the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine. They stated that this is “another fake of Russian propagandists”, designed to “spread panic and sow discord among the Ukrainian diaspora and undermine confidence in Ukrainian authorities.” And although many propaganda channels really spread the news, in terms “tested” it is not a fake, but a political satire.

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