Russian fake news: Military summonses in Zhytomyr region being sent out through Diia app

Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels have recently spread the information that Ukrainians began to receive electronic military summons through the Diia application. As evidence, they published screenshots allegedly taken by a resident of the Zhytomyr region who received a summons. The above text states that the citizen must come to the Zhytomyr Joint City Military Recruitment Center, which is allegedly located in Zhytomyr at 4 Serhiia Paradzhanova Street. The summons itself was allegedly signed by the head of the Zhytomyr Joint City Military Recruitment Center, Serhii Martyshchenko.

The summons is fake. The forgery does not include the information required for the summons, namely the citizen's full name, address of the place of registration or actual place of residence of the conscript. The signature and seal of the head of the military recruitment center are also missing.

In addition, the propagandists mixed up the addresses. The Zhytomyr Regional Military Recruitment Center is located at 4 Serhiia Paradzhanova Street in Zhytomyr, not the Zhytomyr Joint City Military Recruitment Center, as stated in the "summons." The Zhytomyr Joint City Military Recruitment Center is located at 18 Montana Street.

Given that the "document" was signed by Martyshchenko, who heads the Zhytomyr Regional Military Recruitment Center, the summons should have been sent by this institution.

A representative of the Zhytomyr Regional Military Recruitment Center told Ukrinform that the screenshots had been fabricated.

"Military recruitment centers do not use Diia to send summonses and notifications. The Zhytomyr Regional Military Recruitment Center does not serve summonses. District and city military recruitment centers are engaged in notifying the population," the institution's representatives added.

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov has recently posted on Telegram that military summonses would never be sent out through the Diia application.

Last week, the Russians spread a fake story about the "working scheme" used by the Chernihiv territorial recruitment and social support center to mobilize citizens.

Dmytro Badrak