Russian media spread fake about Ukrainian volunteers
Russian
propaganda continues to sling mud at the Ukrainian volunteers. Spreading false
information media are trying to discredit the Ukrainian volunteers movement who
had made a significant contribution to the Euromaidan victory in 2014 and
reformation of the army.
A
subsidiary project of Russian media group "Russia today" (established
on the basis of RIA Novosti) Ukraine.ru published an article titled
"Volunteers: the most lucrative profession of Ukraine." On the
example of three volunteers, Igor Serdyukov who is a journalist of Russian
site, "proves," as those had earned a fortune in Ukrainians donations.
"Resourceful
citizens have taken on the mission to supply weapons, ammunition, medicines and
food, suffering without this Ukrainian army, and then formed a volunteer
corps," — said about in the beginning of the material.
The
news were reprinted by infopolk.ru, informburo.dn.ua and some others.
StopFake
decided to show how Ukraine.ru misleads readers of the article using irrelevant
information and disrupting the balance of opinion.
Yury Biryukov
Ukraine.ru
blames the famous volunteer Yury Biryukov, the assistant of the Minister Defence
of Ukraine now, in embezzlement the volunteer funds for their business
projects.
"Help
the front has been so successful that today Biryukov officially owns an IT
business in USA and agribusiness in Ukraine", — says a Russian website.
Obviously,
the author of the article makes conclusions based on the interview with Yury
Biryukov dated July 1, 2014 edition of the Censor.net, where he told us about
his business and this information has been fixed for the profiles on the
Internet.
However,
Yuriy Biryukov told StopFake that he sold his business two years ago:
"just then a logout process started [summer 2014]. When
the purpose has already begun and wanted to get out of businesses. A
Facebook page of its agribusiness, "Kovalevskaya Strawberry", last
updated in may 2014.
Tatyana Rychkova
Another
objective of the material was another volunteer helping army assistant of the
Minister of Defence, people's Deputy of Ukraine Tatyana Rychkova. On the basis
of her published Declaration, the author concludes that she simply declared the
stolen money from volunteer help.
"According
to the Declaration before the election of the Parliament Tatyana Rychkova
before election in the Verkhovna Rada had income 1 689 315 UAH, of which
salaries accounted for only 83 097 UAH, and more than half a million UAH was
humbly and honestly specified in "Other income".
The
origin of this amount Rychkova explained in the comment to the "Ukrainian
truth" September 9, 2016.
According
to her, 1.6 million UAH in the Declaration — the amount that the Bank forgave her as a debt for a credit
apartment, and considered her as income.