In early June 2025, photographs of leaflets with the rules of conduct in the Russian patriotic camp, where former invasion participants in Ukraine, work on the network. We checked the reliability of such publications.
According to the viral posts, in the Russian summer camp “Country of Heroes”, where veterans of hostilities in Ukraine are allegedly occupied as counselors, children “Rules for safe behavior during a patriotic shift” were handed out to children. In it, in particular, there are demands not to sneak up to the former military from the back, not to provoke them, hold their hands in sight, not speak foreign languages and not wear blue clothes with a yellow uniform. Several photographs of the memo are given as evidence. Together with them, they often publish a picture of an announcement allegedly placed in the same camp, which, on the contrary, is addressed to counselors - they are forbidden to bathe children “below the waist”. Photos spread widely in Facebook, X, Threads and other social networks, numerous videoCollected tens of thousands Views V Tiktok.
"The country of the heroes"Is a network of Russian free military-patriotic camps for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years. They appeared even before the start of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, in 2019, by initiative Russian military-historical society. Each year, the shifts are carried out on the basis of camps in different regions of the Russian Federation: for example, In 2025 - in the Chelyabinsk, Volgograd, Lipetsk and Omsk regions, as well as in the Republic of Bashkortostan. By the time, when a photo with a memo was enclosed in social networks, Started Only one shift (May 28 in the Lipetsk region). Therefore, if the pictures are genuine, they are made there.
Memo with rules of conduct
In total, “verified” discovered three photos of the memo. One of them, apparently, is captured the cover of a booklet called “Red flag for a veteran: safe behavior during a patriotic shift”, on the second - the set of rules, on the third - the same memo on a sheet of a different format glued to a tree. All these materials are decorated in the branded yellow-red colors of the “Heroes of Heroes”, the camp logo is located below. At the same time, the pictures cannot be reliably determined where they were made.
The fact that the participants of the shift in the Lipetsk region were distributed such memos are not reported to site "Heroes", nor in Telegram channel camps, nor in his group On VKontakte. Although the site has a separate tab With the rules of conduct for participants in shifts, they practically do not differ from similar instructions in other camps: cigarettes, alcohol and drugs are prohibited, the property of the camp, swear, insult other people, etc.
Moreover, neither the "country of heroes" nor the Russian media reported that participants in the invasion of Ukraine are working in the camp as counselors. The military only invite for meetings with children and Readings lectures, such events Conducted Almost every shift. Some Russian publications CheckThat retired military, but only having the appropriate permission, can work in the camp, and this rule acted even before the start of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine.
Some sources say that leaflets with the rules of behavior when communicating with the veterans were handed out to their parents before the start of the shift. Accordingly, until May 28 they were supposed to receive families at least 300 children. Firstly, it is extremely suspicious that there are so few leaflet pictures, and secondly, additional questions arise for the photograph where the memo is glued to the tree.
Pictures of leaflets initially appeared on June 3 in Tiktok. It is difficult to reliably install the source due to the features of the search on this platform, but the earliest video that contained pictures of the booklet and the memo itself and which was “checked”, Published User @Russian.insider. It is noteworthy that the next day he posted the same materials, this time Clarifyingthat the memo was given out in the camp near Kaluga (although the "country of heroes" does not hold a shift in the Kaluga region, and the region does not even borders on Lipetsk). The user @Russian.insider publishes numerous clicobite videos both in support and with the conviction of the invasion of Ukraine and the Kremlin policy, as well as photos The leaflets are supposedly with shares for “Heroes of Svo” in Russian restaurants.
Announcement in the soul
Judging by the picture, the announcement is printed on a regular sheet A4 and hanged at the entrance to the shower room in the camp. Users who have published this photo note that there are supposedly there are no booths and this even more worries parents.
In Tiktok, a video with this picture and a similar commentary appeared at the end of May, and some also May 27, the day before the start of the shift in the Lipetsk region. In addition, as indicated above, only children aged 12 to 17 years are invited to the camp, they hardly need help with washing.
Google's reverse search showed that the original photo is published on site Companies for the sale and installation of plastic windows in Belarus. There you can also find pictures of the same door from another angle. At the same time, there is no announcement in the photographs - apparently, it was added using a photo editor.
Several different Tiktok users told the special requirements for the participants in the camp of the “Country of Heroes” at once. Starting with a fabricated picture of the announcement at the entrance to the shower and reports about the memo with the rules of conduct, these bloggers continued to share all new details - for example, they argued that children allegedly wake up the sounds of sirens. Also in these accounts Placed A photo of children's drawing is supposedly from a nine -year -old Masha (although they accept only from the age of 12) with the inscription: “I do not want to go there. There they kill dogs and whisper at night. " Now most of these publications are not available.
All these accounts are similar to each other - they allegedly publish news from Russia, diluting many fakes with true messages. For example, user @Opposition.insiderIn addition to a dozen different videos about counselors in the "country of heroes", published video With photographs of fake leaflets With discounts for participants in the "Special Military Operation" for May 9.
Thus, there is no evidence that the military who returned from the war zone becomes coupled in the Russian camp of the “country of heroes”, and children oblige themselves to behave with them in a certain way.
Photo on the cover: Country -Geroev.rf
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