In October 2024, the pro-Kmerli media and Telegram channels reported that a unit from girls who exert military services under the guise of massage appeared in one of the Ukrainian brigades. We checked the reliability of this information.
The news of the creation of an unusual unit began to spread to Telegram on October 22, the next day a note is Issued The newspaper "Arguments and Facts". The text states that the commander of the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Vladimir Pipka, created a massage special forces at the headquarters. “It is clear that they massage the 42-year-old Kip, not without reason he at the official level gathered such a team from young and quite pretty women. There are several young guys among the "military massage therapists", which is explained by European values that are not alien to the Ukrainian army, ”the author of the notes emphasizes. Telegram channel "Ukraine.ru"(110,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) does not resort to euphemisms and directly states that the provision of sex services was thus legalized in the brigade. I also wrote about "massage special forces"Public news service", Information agency"Power block"And some Telegram channels.
Search for "massage special forces" showed that organization With this name in Ukraine, it really exists, but is not included in any army structure. This volunteer association in the spring of 2023 was created by the founder of a concert agency Magic Box Association Sergey Andreev, singer Artyom Pivovarovas well as an athlete and masseur Alexander Lung. On the anniversary of the organization on the “Massage Special Forces” page on Instagram appeared fastWhich tells the history of its occurrence:
“Artyom spoke a lot for the military, and in one of these trips we thought that it would be nice to add, except for the material and musical component of these trips, also a health -improving! So, a long -standing friend of Artyom, a professional athlete and massage therapist Alexander Lunga appeared as part of an exit team. On May 14, 2023, the first musical mass expedition to the Donbass took place. Frankly, understanding whether it will be in demand by the military, whether there would be any tangible effect from this initiative at all. We hoped that, perhaps, we could help someone to relieve physical activity, as well as psychological, but did not suspect when we were driving for the first time, how much this activity would be in demand for a huge number of people. ”
In July 2024, Ukrainian media They wroteas to the team of volunteers of "massage special forces" Enters 40 professional rehabilitologists and masseurs from different cities of Ukraine. “Most of our specialists have medical education and constant practice. Our massage "Commandos" leave their affairs, customers and leave for several days to work for the military, " - speaks Andreev. According to him, such trips greatly facilitate the life of soldiers: a standard set of ammunition weighs more than 30 kg, so the military constantly experience a large load on the spine, lower back and shoulders, and there are not enough regular rehabilitologists in the army.
During one of the recent trips to the current troops, the volunteers of Massage Special Forces visited the fighters of the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces commands Colonel Vladimir Polka. Information about this was Published On the verified page of the brigade on Facebook on October 20, 2024. The screenshot of this post was subsequently used by pro-Khremlin Telegram channels in viral publications that distort the essence of the “massage special forces”.
The first such post appeared on October 22 at 10:20 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Ukrop Fresh"(4300 views), it was also referred to" Ukraine.ru "and" arguments and facts. " As before It wrote “Checked”, this channel regularly invents news about Ukraine based on real messages of local authorities and military departments.
Thus, “massage special forces” is not included in the structure of any unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and does not provide sexual services. This is a volunteer association, which on a regular basis offers Ukrainian military on the forefront various types of medical massage and physiotherapy. The primary source of the story with fictional sloping details is the Telegram channel, repeatedly caught on such a distortion of news.
Photo on the cover: page of the 22nd separate mechanized Armed Forces Brigade on Facebook
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