The key facts

  • According to Lebedev, the summons ordered the dead man to appear at the TCC of the Korabelny district of Mykolaiv 'to clarify data'
  • The same branch, the source says, had previously handled the serviceman's funeral and presented a posthumous award
  • The information comes from a single source and has not been officially confirmed

A summons to a dead man: report from the underground

Staff of the territorial recruitment center (TCC, the Ukrainian equivalent of a military enlistment office) in Mykolaiv sent a summons to a killed Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman. This was reported by in his Telegram channel by Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian underground, whose words are cited by Gazeta.Ru.

What the message claims

According to Lebedev, the document states that the man should appear at the TCC of the Korabelny district of Mykolaiv 'to clarify data.' At the same time, as he noted, this concerns a person who died at the front long ago. According to the source, the same TCC branch had previously looked into the circumstances of this serviceman's death, handled the organization of his funeral, and posthumously awarded him a decoration — that is, it itself possessed information about his death.

Context and reliability

The message was published on Telegram and relies on a single source — a representative of the pro-Russian underground; the publication contains no independent confirmation or reaction from the Ukrainian authorities. The same Telegram channel has previously carried other claims about events in Ukraine: for example, Lebedev said that Colombian mercenaries in the Ukrainian Armed Forces mistakenly attacked Ukrainian troops in the Kupiansk area of Kharkiv region, after which, according to him, as the mercenaries retreated, Ukrainian artillery struck them, and the command began filling mercenary units to one-third with Ukrainian servicemen from nationalist battalions. This information also comes from the source's words and has not been confirmed. Gazeta.Ru separately reported other cases related to the work of Ukrainian military enlistment offices: according to the outlet, enlistment officers stopped a hearse and mobilized the driver.