Ukraine’s NSDC refutes yet another Kremlin fake claiming Army uses foreigners as human shield

The Center for Combating Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has refuted the fake narrative, spread by the Russians, claiming that the Ukrainian troops use foreign nationals as a human shield.

That’s according to the Center’s report on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.

According to hostile propaganda resources, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the occupiers "are doing everything possible to ensure the return of Indian students from Kharkiv to their homeland" because they are "taken hostage by Ukrainian security forces who exploit them as a human shield."

The Center for Combating Disinformation stressed that Ukraine is doing its utmost to facilitate the evacuation of foreign nationals from the warzone.

In particular, the Ukrzaliznytsia railway operator has set up evacuation corridors for foreign nationals, forming groups for transportation in separate cars, while foreign language-speaking volunteers have been deployed at railway stations.

"As for isolated cases of domestic conflicts involving foreigners, they occur against the background of their misunderstanding of the Ukrzaliznytsia rules implying priority evacuation for women and children (regardless of race and origin), also being fueled by enemy propaganda," said the Center for Combatting Disinformation.

The Center stressed that by spreading fakes, the aggressor seeks to reduce international support for Ukraine.