In September 2024, Telegram spread the news about the creation of an educational center in Ukraine, where high school students and students will undergo ideological and military training. Bloggers compared a new structure with youth movement in Nazi Germany. We checked the reliability of these publications.

On September 20 and 21, large Russian-speaking Telegram channels with reference to unnamed media reported that the Ukrainian Nazi Organization “National Corpus” is allegedly going to open a youth educational center in Kherson, in which adolescents will be offered the initial military training and classes in ideology. The project should be supervised from publications, Ivan Starostenko should be called the SBU agent and racketeer in the past, as well as Nikita Tyutyunnik, a former member of the Right Sector.

This was told by such Telegram channels as "Uncle Glory"(187,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Ostashko! Important"(105,000),"Bullet"(103,000),"Mishovets Yegor"(94,000) and others.

The publication was the first to inform the publication of the impending opening of the ideological youth center in Kherson.True DPR»In the evening of September 19. The note does not indicate the name of the author and the source of information, and the pages of the site “On the Project” and “Our Team” do not open. The developer of the portal is indicated by the Ministry of Information of the Self -proclaimed DPR.

This publication provides some details about the institution. Thus, Pravda DPR claims that military personnel of the 3rd separate landing and screening brigade of the Armed Forces may be involved in the project (this is a unit Created Based on the Azov Terborne detachment, which in turn was established by veterans of the same volunteer regiment). According to the publication, the Kherson authorities, led by the head of the city military administration, Roman Mrochko allegedly sabotage the opening of the center, fearing possible shelling and political pressure. At the same time, “verified” failed to find any references to this center in the Ukrainian-speaking media.

Mentioned in the note "Pravda of the DPR" and later posts of Telegram channels "National Corpus"-this is the Ukrainian political party "National Corps", created In 2016. Her permanent leader is the founder of Azov Alexander Biletsky. The party could not get great folk support - in the 2019 parliamentary elections, she Combined to the electoral block with "Freedom" and other nationalist forces, but a single list Sicked total 2.15% of the vote. The National Corpus also could not hold the deputies to the Verkhovna Rada in the single -mandate districts. In the same 2019, in the report of the US Department of State Party mentioned As a “group of hatred”-due to attacks on journalists, representatives of national minorities and LGBT communities. Tyutyunnik, who in viral publications is called the alleged curator of the youth center, was head The Kherson branch of the National Corps, but left the party back in 2020. The replacement for him Came Starostenko, who is also mentioned by Pravda DPR.

After the start of a full -scale war in Ukraine, the National Corpus actually stopped his activities, told Biletsky in interview Ukrainian Pravda in 2023. He explained this by the fact that most party members joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Terborne, including the 3rd separate assault brigade, which is also led by Biletsky. The party’s website (NationalCorps.org) is not working now, when the link is opened, the browser redirects the user to the page of the Vietnamese bookmaker. Account "National Corps" in X only reposts tweets of other users (since the beginning of the year - twice), and the channel in YouTube Transferred to the fund of the 3rd separate airborne assault brigade. Last fast In the Telegram party, the party was published on June 3. In none of the social networks, the National Corpus does not write about the upcoming opening of the youth center in Kherson - in fact, the organization now generally does not conduct any active activity.

It can be assumed that in this situation, the information about the establishment of the center on the rights of the head of the National Corpus was personally published by Biletsky. However, on him page In X, there are also no references to this project, and the latter at the time of writing the analysis of the publication was posted on June 24. Posts on this topic are also absent in profile Starostenko on Instagram and on page Tyutyunnik on Facebook.

Finally, the possibilities for the full operation of such a center in Kherson, located in the immediate vicinity of the front line, are at least limited in the coming months. Schoolchildren in the Kherson region since the beginning of a full -scale invasion Learn Online. Only in 2024, students in the liberated settlements on the right bank of the Dnieper allowed to spend a couple of hours a week at school - and then in shelters. Children from Kherson himself Forbid Study offline because of the daily shelling of the city. Kherson universities were evacuated In other cities of Ukraine, at the beginning of a full -scale invasion, but after the liberation of the city in the fall of 2022, they were not allowed to return to their former place, some university buildings Destroyed. For example, the Kherson State Marine Academy Translated to the base of the Odessa Agrarian University.

The comparison of Ukrainian military-patriotic camps with a Hitler Youth in the Russian media is not the first time: back in 2015, Komsomolskaya Pravda Published An article entitled “Azov militants” opened a Nazi children's camp near Kiev, and in 2017 the Zvezda TV channel He called it A similar project in the Donetsk region is a camp of young nationalists. In turn, some Ukrainian publications Draw a parallel between the Hitler Youth and the Russian children's military-patriotic movement "Unarmia", which acts Including in the occupied territories of Ukraine. For example, in the controlled part of the Kherson region, the unit "Unarmia" It earned Back in 2022.

Thus, the reports that they plan to open an analogue of the Hitler Yugen in Kherson are not confirmed by any reliable sources. This information without a link to the source was first placed by an anonymous author on a portal working in a self -proclaimed DPR. None of the representatives of the “National Corps” mentioned in that note supposedly overseeing the project declared plans to establish such a center.

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