At the end of June 2025, photos and videos dispersed on the Web, which captured the advertising poster of the Ukrainian program “Contract 60+”. It is reported that elderly citizens are attracted to military service with a promise that they will be able to complete the bathhouse for payments. We checked the reliability of this news.
Judging by the photo and video, the advertisement of the “Contract 60+” appeared on a certain electronic screen. The image shows a gray -haired bearded man in a military uniform with a patch in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, behind it you can see a log structure. It is indicated that the signatures of such a contract will provide uniforms and food, as well as monthly cash allowance in the amount of 30,000 UAH (about $ 720). “Enough to finally complete the bathhouse,” says the Ukrainian-speaking slogan. In the nine -second video, apparently, the same screen is presented as in the photograph. At the same time, the sounds are heard against the background, allegedly indicating that the video is recorded in a public place.
June 30 in the Telegram channel of the Russian TV presenter Olesya Loseva (16,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) The alleged advertising of the “Contract 60+” was described as follows: “Old people Zelensky want to drive into the trenches. "30 000 UAH, free grunts. Enough to finally finish the bathhouse!" - promises an advertising post. There is no limit to the impudence of the Ukrobander mind. Here we are already talking about real old people - with rheumatisms, radiculitis, hemorrhoids and other related age sores. They want to take the quantity! How much grandfather will last, no matter. You can write off for old age. " As illustrations, the publication contains those very photos and videos.
According to the TGSTAT service, by the time of writing this analysis, about 140 similar Russian -speaking records appeared in Telegram, which summarized more than 760,000 views. About the advertising of the voluntary service for Ukrainians over 60, whom some authors called pension troops, wrote channels such as "Russian Kolobok and Green Trick"(184,000 views), Voblya (129,000), "Cat Kostyan"(82 000),"The wrong side"(38 000),"In fact in Kharkov"(30,000) and"Ragulyaku on Gylyaku"(29,000). Similar publications are found on VKontakte (examples here, here And here), X (here And here), Facebook, "Classmates". In addition, the television channel told about the alleged advertising "Don 24"And the publication Life.ru.
At the end of April 2025, the Ukrainian press reportedthat the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada introduced a bill proving the opportunity for citizens over 60 years to voluntarily sign a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the text of the document, they, if they are recognized as suitable for the military medical commission, will be able to occupy non-eating positions during the year with the subsequent possibility of concluding a new contract. In addition, for this category of citizens, a trial period of two months is provided. “We are not talking about the assaults of some units, but about signalmen, cooks, lawyers. They would like to join the Armed Forces and be useful ” - explained Deputy from the Procedic Party "Servant of the People" Alexander Fedienko. Already in early June the Verkhovna Rada Accepted This bill is in the first reading.
How Notes The Ukrainian “Judicial Legal newspaper”, the country's Ministry of Defense did not previously support the idea of involving persons over 60 years old in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and in the State Border Service indicated corruption factors in the bill. “By the second reading, we will provide for those fuses that the military fears,” - He promised Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Fedor Venislavsky. In particular, we are talking about preventing the massive signing of contracts by former colonels and lieutenant colonels in order to receive cash payments and subsequent recalculation of the pension. According to Venislavsky, not everyone will be able to conclude a contract over 60 years old - such an opportunity is provided only for a limited circle of unique specialists.
At the same time, not any of the publications found is “verified” where and when the authors of the picture and the video saw such an advertising stand. Viral photos and videos themselves are made so that it is not possible to determine the location captured on them.
“Verified” did not find confirmation of the authenticity of such an advertisement “Contract 60+” either on the resources of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, which allegedly issued such materials, nor in general in the Ukrainian -language segment of the network. On the contrary, Ukrainian media They called it Similar messages by fake Russian propaganda. The center of counteracting misinformation under the National Defense Council of Ukraine agrees with such conclusions. “Having verified this information in the defense forces of Ukraine, the Center reports: there is no such advertising campaign in Ukraine at present,” - It was said In his message.
After conducting the opposite search According to the virus image in the Tinyye service, you can find an original picture of a man in military uniform, supposedly advertising the “contract 60+”. This photo has been available for several years on the sites of stock pictures (Freepik, Adobe Stock, Alamy And SHUTTERSTOCK). Its author is Ukrainian photographer Sergey Bobik. Judging by this and other pictures from the same series, her hero depicted a soldier or US Army veteran. So, on his right sleeve, a patch with the American flag is noticeable, while in viral advertising for the equipment of a soldier the Ukrainian flag is applied. How Noticed Ukrinform agency, in March the original photo in one of its notes about the German army Used Prochremlin television channel "Tsargrad".
The earliest publication with viral advertising (among the “tested” found) appeared on June 30 at 14:07 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “Nonal news»With the userneum Komitetz (2400 views). At the same time, the earlier date is the earlier date: 2025-06-23, that is, the video could be created on June 23, a week before the publication, is indicated in the viral video. Previously, "Feowed News" already mentioned “Tested” as the source of Fake - a fake instruction on photographing the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky in Istanbul. Just a few minutes after this channel, at 14:15, a similar post about advertising “Contract 60+” was published in the pro-Komrelev Telegram channel ”Bear"(8300 views). This is one of the record holders in the number of references in our analysis, it has repeatedly become the primary source of the spread of misinformation.
Thus, at the time of writing this parsing, a bill that allows Ukrainians over 60 years old to voluntarily enter the contract service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine has not yet been adopted. Be that as it may, the viral advertising of the corresponding program originally appeared in the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels, previously caught in the publications of anti-Ukrainian fakes, and it is based on an old man of an American military uniform. The Ukrainian authorities also denied the launch of such an advertising campaign.
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