Vladimir Solovyov's Telegram channel (more than 1.3 million subscribers) published a message allegedly received by a Ukrainian citizen from the SBU:
"Good afternoon.
If you are in … (outside of Ukraine), we ask you to voluntarily come to the point of training and recruitment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the place of residence.
In case of non-appearance voluntarily, the Security Service of Ukraine reserves the right to apply to the court to deport you to Ukraine.”
To this, the Solovyov channel added a brief comment: “There are no losses ©️”, apparently considering this evidence of large losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In itself, the proposal to appear at the recruiting point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the place of residence, if a citizen lives abroad, looks at least strange. But journalists from the Ukrainian edition of Khvilya found several more signs of forgery in the message.
Firstly, the message looks like a fragment of correspondence in the Telegram messenger, and the SBU does not use it to send messages. Secondly, there are no “points for training and manning the Armed Forces of Ukraine”; military command and control bodies that ensure the implementation of legislation on military service are officially called territorial centers for recruiting and social support.
In addition, there is a typo in the message (“sudzhba” instead of “service”). There are also punctuation errors: a comma is missing before “we ask you”, and after “voluntary”, on the contrary, it is superfluous. Such inaccuracy in the official message does not inspire confidence.
"Soloviev" took this message from the Telegram channel "Typical Odessa". Odessa portal USI ("Ukrainian Information Service") indicates that this is a fake channel that is not directly related to Odessa; It was created by Alexander Sinitsin, a resident of Ryazan. In the past, he really lived in Odessa, after the Euromaidan he supported the idea of separating “big Novorossiya” from Ukraine, including Odessa, and having convinced himself of the unfeasibility of the project, he emigrated to Russia in 2014. The channel publishes openly anti-Ukrainian statements, gives advice on how to evade conscription into the Armed Forces of Ukraine, interspersing it with old photographs of Odessa and materials on the history of the city to disguise it.
However, even this channel, shortly after the publication of the “message from the SBU”, in response to criticism, stated that it had never claimed that the message was genuine. Now the channel attributes the message to some "private shops paid from other pockets" (what kind of shops and what kind of pockets, he does not try to explain). But Solovyov's channel, with a much larger number of subscribers than Typical Odessa, has already circulated this as evidence of the heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.