Enemy propaganda traditionally attempts to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including the units operating on the Kherson front. The occupiers, without evidence, accuse Ukrainian servicemen of Russophobia, looting, and a taste for hard drugs. And the new lie – the Armed Forces supposedly eat dogs, cats and other pets of Kherson residents, because provisions to their positions have been stopped.
Russian sources tell of hunger in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“On the Kherson front the Ukrainian army has completely failed logistics:
the units sit without food, water, or ammunition. Soldiers are dying of hunger. Locals say – the military are already hunting everything that moves – (cats and dogs), so as not to remain hungry. Previously our soldiers spoke about this, now – the Kherson residents themselves”, – the Russians report.
Any evidence – traditionally absent, and believing the occupiers “at their word” – is pointless. Although during the Russian-Ukrainian war there were indeed recorded instances of consuming pets as food. Only it was not the Armed Forces of Ukraine who did this, but the occupiers themselves.
For example, as early as May 2022 the SBU published the correspondence of a Russian invader with his comrade, in which the fighter said that his unit had to eat dogs. This happened precisely on the Kherson front. This information should not surprise locals who witnessed how in the first days of the occupation the “liberators” looted grocery stores. A similar situation occurred in 2022 in the town of Vorzel near Kyiv.
During the occupation of the town of Yampil in Donetsk region, the Russians did not limit themselves to dogs. The occupiers ate most of the animals from the local zoo, including bison, kangaroos and ostriches.
In principle, there is nothing surprising here, because, for example, the “logistics geniuses” of the Russian Armed Forces for some reason decided that transporting some provisions for their troops in three-liter glass jars in frontline conditions – was a good idea. Not to mention that, hoping for a “blitzkrieg”, Russian troops at the beginning of the full-scale invasion had food for only a few days.
So the fake about servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who feed on dogs and cats – is another example of Russian propaganda using the principle of the “crooked mirror”. That is, the occupiers simply accuse the Ukrainian side of their own shameful acts.
The material was prepared within the framework of a project supported by the NGO Institute of Mass Information and CzechAid