Russian propaganda spreads New Year's fake: Education Ministry 'recommends' preschoolers dress as Stepan Bandera

Kremlin-run Telegram channels are circulating a photo of an alleged "advertisement" from a Lviv-based kindergarten. According to the text, the theme of the "New Year's party" is the Heroes of Ukraine, with parents "persuasively asked" to dress their children in historical costumes. The "advertisement" includes "examples" of the best costumes, supposedly "recommended" by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, with children dressed as Stepan Bandera.

This advertisement is fake. Propagandists fabricated the ad, printed it, and photographed it.

The image of a rooster next to the ad originates from Russian sources, commonly found on Russian stock illustration websites.

Additionally, there are grammatical errors in the text. For example, the propagandists "forgot" to add an apostrophe to the word "Friday" in Ukrainian and failed to place a comma before the word "recommended."

It is important to note that the official website of the Ministry of Education and Science does not contain any recommendations about costumes for children's holiday events in kindergartens.

Russian propagandists frequently spread such themed fakes during the New Year holidays, claiming that Ukrainian authorities impose absurd celebratory rules against the will of the people. Ukrinform journalists previously debunked similar false claims, such as one in which it was claimed that Santa Claus was being forced on children in Poltava instead of Grandfather Frost.

Russian propaganda previously spread a fake story about a ban on certain female names in Ukraine.

Andriy Olenin