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.

“Given the sheer volume of fake news, all of this looks very much like a targeted, deliberate information operation against the new commander-in-chief. It’s happening in parallel with ridiculous accusations of ‘racism’ based on a perfectly reasonable anti-Russian interview from 2023,” he emphasized.

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Lykhovii also urged journalists and social media users to verify the authenticity of accounts and the accuracy of information before sharing it, so as not to contribute to the spread of fake news.

As reported by Ukrinform, scammers created a fake page on the social network X for Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi.

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