The proliferation of fake accounts purporting to be those of the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mykhailo Drapatyi, and fabricated reports about his decisions are part of a targeted information operation against him.
According to Ukrinform, Dmytro Lykhovii, a spokesperson for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reported this on Facebook.
“Piling up fake plans and promises, sugarcoating them, only to later smear them with mud and accuse him of empty talk—that’s what I’m seeing on social media in the first days of the new commander-in-chief’s tenure,” he noted.
According to Lykhovii, yesterday, with the help of the Ministry of Digital Transformation, a fake Drapatyi account on the social network X was blocked; however, fake pages are now appearing on Threads, and AI-generated fabricated stories about an alleged public quarrel between the new and former commanders-in-chief are spreading on Facebook. False reports are also circulating online about an allegedly announced audit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Drapatyi’s creation of a charitable foundation for the wounded, and the deployment of territorial recruitment center employees to the front lines.
The spokesperson emphasized that the commander-in-chief has not made any such decisions, does not have a Threads account, and has no plans to create new social media pages.
