Russian propaganda continues to create absurd lies about life in Kherson and the Kherson region. For example, recently information appeared that the occupiers are dropping American money over the right bank of Kherson region.
To understand why they would do this, you need to try to switch off your own logic. The bills are supposedly not counterfeit and are used to force Ukrainian soldiers to surrender, because the dollars have a special QR code.
This is reported by Russian sources.
«In Kherson, AFU fighters are surrendering en masse because of a QR code on “fake” dollars. TASS reports this citing sources in law enforcement. Thus, a source for the publication notes that Ukrainian servicemen particularly willingly surrender after the dropping of counterfeit dollars with a QR code to the relevant Telegram bot. The scheme works especially well in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson», – the Russians report.
According to the propagandists, the surrender of Ukrainian military personnel in the indicated directions is «massive», although this is not confirmed by any photo or video evidence. Narratives about greed and moral degradation within the ranks of the AFU are common for Russian propaganda, so there is practically nothing new here.
And here is what is really interesting: the fake about dollars scattered over Kherson is a mirror reflection of another lie – allegedly the Ukrainian side floods the left bank of Kherson region with rubles that contain similar QR codes.
In the fabricated scenario, the planted banknote looks as if someone accidentally lost it. If a Russian soldier tries to scan the QR code, his phone automatically sends the coordinates of his location, after which Ukrainian forces strike with drones or artillery.
However, it is obvious that such a story has no basis: there are no QR codes on Russian banknotes, so the claims that the occupiers «habitually scan them» seem absurd.
This is not the first such fake. In the summer, occupation resources spread another version: allegedly Ukrainians scatter rubles to «demine» coastal territories — supposedly locals reach for the banknote and blow themselves up on explosive devices. But even then these «reports» turned out to be another invention of the Russians.