Did the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces that in the army can serve with any group of disability?

In March 2024, a statement by the Ukrainian commander on reducing the requirements for military liable for military service was dispersed over the network. We checked whether Anatoly Bargilevich said something like that.

According to the media and Telegram channels, the recently appointed chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Anatoly Bargilevich gave a rather unexpected answer to the question with which group of disability can be served in the army. “With any. If a person can tie a grenade to himself and jump into a dugout, then he is suitable, ”the military leader supposedly said. Often, the quote was distributed in the form of a screenshot with the logo of the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN.

They wrote about this "Komsomolskaya Truth","Reporter","Kherson news feed","Transnistria news tape"And other Russian -speaking media. Among the Telegram channels that spread the news-“Live broadcast"(709,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"KB +18"(325 000), Colonelcassad (312 000), "Rosich"(216 000),"Truthfulness"(196 000),"Uncle Glory"(184 000) and"Observer"(183 000).

Russian pro -government media pay considerable attention to mobilization issues in Ukraine. For more than a month, the highest officials of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been talking about a lack of manpower and the need to conduct a rotation at the front, and a new bill on mobilization, which is now, is called upon to solve this problem. considered In the Verkhovna Rada. Fakes appear at the same time on this topic - about restriction the departure of teenagers abroad, oh videoagitating to send roosters to the front, about leaflets with a call to pensioners to join the army.

Since the screenshot with a quote by Bargilevich contains the UNIAN logo, the corresponding publication was supposed to appear at one of the resources of the news agency. However, neither on his official sitenot on his pages in Facebook, Instagram, X And Telegram “Verified” failed to find the appropriate message. In response to a query of factor from the Stopfake project, the editor -in -chief of the UNIAN site Andrey Sofin declaredthat the picture distributed in social networks has nothing to do with the news agency. He also noted that such messages of the publication look different - in particular, a font and proportions differ.

“Verified” did not find publications whose authors cited the verified statement precisely as a quote from Bargilevich or other high -ranking Ukrainian military, and other authoritative Ukrainian resources, including official pages of the Armed Forces and sites of the largest media.

On March 14, the Center for Combating misinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has released statementIn which he called the statement by Fake, and the purpose of its spread was “discredited by the military-political leadership of the state”.

According to the TGSTAT service, the first Telegram channel to distribute a quote was "Sheikh Tamir"(171,000 views), where she appeared on March 13 at 14:29 Moscow time. Previously, this channel is already repeatedly It turned out primary source distribution disinformation About Ukraine.

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