In late March-early April 2024, reports dispersed that in the city of Lozovaya several women told the authorities about their fingers-fingers to be sent to the Ukrainian army. A few days later, one of these husbands allegedly died. We checked the reliability of such publications.
One of the first about this story was the newspaper “Arguments and Facts” on site and in social networks. The note dated March 27, 2024 states that recently in the city of Lozova in the Kharkov region, the head of the local territorial center of recruitment (TCC, analogue of the military enlistment offices in Ukraine) Vitaly Chusenko presented awards to women who “surrendered” their fingers. “A fairly ridiculous situation, in fact, the wife in rare situations will thus put her spouse. <...> Maybe in this Lozovoy man, a woman’s wives took their wives to such an extent that they took such a step as the challenge of military commissariats to get rid of a sipple existence, ”- told In a commentary to the Russian newspaper, Ekaterina Sazhnev (in the publication she is presented as a journalist and human rights activist).
However, in Telegram, such messages began to be massively distributed only from March 30. According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, about 300 posts about this news appeared on the platform, which gained more than 3.5 million views. At the same time, in Telegram, in contrast to “arguments and facts”, they published a photograph of women with flowers and letters that were supposedly awarded to them on March 26. Also authors of posts bring, stated, the words of the representative of the TCC in Lozova: "The spouses could no longer continue to cover the slope and began to demand from them to go protect their country." Channels wrote about the surrender of husbands with wives "The world today with "Yuri Podolyak""(1.1 million views; The post is deleted),"Sanya in Florida"(511 000),"Nasurabi"(253,000),"The world of Mikhail Onufrienko"(221 000; The post is deleted),"Ukraine.ru"(148 000; fasting is removed),"Sheikh Tamir"(147 000),"Special operation z"(77 000) and"Club service"(74 000). “Nothing human, a country of informers and traitors. <...> Remember these crocodiles. When we go to Kharkov, we will ask them to be fully, ”the author commented on the news“Evil journalist"(57,000 views). Publications on the delivery of spouses to the military registration and enlistment office are found in "VKontakte" And "Zen", As well as on the websites of the newspaper"Capital with" And "Politicus".
On March 30, a continuation of the story appeared: supposedly near Kupyanskoye, a soldier of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces from Lozova, whom his wife had handed over to the military commissars, died. “Naturally, her hysteria began, during which she accused Zelensky and the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine of the death of her husband. But for some reason I forgot about myself, because it was from its presentation that the narrowed ones were taken to the front, ”the Telegram channel said“Alexander Semchenko"(101,000 views), where the photo of the couple is also given. About the death of the man also wrote channels "Russian TV"(36,000 views),"In fact in Kharkov"(28 000; The post is deleted) and"Denacification UA"(22,000), however, such posts did not receive much distribution (in total, they gained about 200,000 views).
On the wall behind women captured in the first viral photograph, it is written in Ukrainian “Lozovskaya City Council”, and also represented coat of arms Lozovaya cities. Using a reverse search by image, journalists of the AFP agency found outthat the original picture was published March 25, 2024 on the page of the Lozovskaya city territorial community on Facebook. As stated in the post, that day they awarded the participants in the preservation of the memory of the fallen defenders of Ukraine. “The working group to honor the soldiers who died for the independence of Ukraine and the support of their families was created in 2023 on the initiative of the head of the city of Lozovaya Sergey Zelensky,” the publication said.
In total, more than 20 photos from the ceremony are attached to the post, including portrait pictures of awarded women. In some images, you can distinguish inscriptions on letters.
Having studied photos from the city council, as well as a list of awarded people on site Lozova, “verified” was able to identify all women (two men were also awarded) and find out why they received their letters. Here are their names and positions (if indicated on the site) from left to right:
- Irina Tymoshenko;
- Marina Mikhailishina, head of the department for the provision of benefits of labor management and social protection of the population of the Lozovsky City Council;
- Tatyana Savina, teacher of the Ukrainian language and literature of Lyceum No. 1 in Lozova;
- Irina Patalah;
- Svetlana Tumanova;
- Julia Ustimenko;
- Elena Chizhkova-Poteichuk, teacher of the Ukrainian language and literature of Lyceum No. 11 in Lozova.
Уточняется, что Михайлишина получила благодарность и грамоту «за весомый личный вклад в достойное почтение памяти погибших защитников Украины, проведённую масштабную работу по созданию Книги памяти, Аллеи славы», Савина и Чижкова-Потейчук — за подготовку материалов для Книги памяти, Тимошенко — за подготовку фотоматериалов и работу над баннерами для Аллеи славы, а Паталаха, Туманова и Ustimenko - for work as part of the initiative group from families of the dead Ukrainian military.
On the YouTube channel of the local television and radio company also published a video of the ceremony, which, judging by the interior, was held in hall meetings of the city hall Lozova.
“Verified” found out that the earliest post on the awarding of women allegedly for the delivery of spouses to the military registration and enlistment office appeared a few days before the mass distribution of this news-on March 26 at 11:04 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Ukrop Fresh"(8400 views). Moreover, the channel did not call the award date, but limited himself to the wording of "the other day." In that publication, several pictures were given from the ceremony and clarified that a man in the black sweater a man who handed letters was a certain Vitaly Chusenko, the head of the local TCC, although in fact it was the mayor of Lozova Sergey Zelensky.
Previously, Ukropsky Fresh repeatedly mentioned in the analysis of "verified" in connection with the publication of disinformation in this channel, and More than once Its authors Used General pictures and videos with incorrect and even completely invented descriptions.
As for the reports of a woman allegedly killed under the Kupyansky husband, then for the first time about this told In the Ukrop Freche (6800 views) - March 30 at 14:07. The viral photograph, which illustrates this news, has nothing to do with the Kharkov region. So, the Kharkov Anti -Corruption Center for details interior I found outthat the picture shows a wedding in the registry office in the Odessa region.
“Checked”, in turn, found that the man in the photo is a lieutenant colonel Anatoly Sergeev, and the girl's name Ekaterina Koshkina. According to her post On Instagram, the couple got married on October 5, 2023. Sergeev He served In the ranks of the Ukrainian army, even before the full -scale invasion of Russia, in early March 2022 he was Noticed In the photo of the Izmail battalion of territorial defense (TRO; Izmail is a city in the Odessa region). At the end of March 2024, Ukrainian media Reported About the death of Sergeyev, who was confirmed by a public figure on Facebook Valery Paykov And the mayor of Ishmael Andrey Abramchenko. “On March 27, the first commander of the Izmail battalion, Tro, Lieutenant Colonel Sergeyev Anatoly Andreevich, died on the battlefield. Under his leadership, in the first weeks of the war, the unit was formed, important tasks of defense of the south of the Odessa region were performed. For almost two years, he served as part of the 126th Brigade of TRO, which held the front near Nikolaev, freed the Kherson region, ”wrote Peykov.
Thus, the messages that several wives were handed over to their husbands in Lozovoy, one of whom was subsequently died is falsification from the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel. It is based on genuine pictures, which, however, have nothing to do with the events described.
Photo on the cover: @lozovanews
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