One of the tasks of Russian propaganda remains attempts to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Enemy “journalists” almost daily spread fakes about alleged “atrocities” of the AFU against the civilian population of Kherson. For example, recently messages appeared online that Ukrainian servicemen allegedly tried to rob a pharmacy located in Antonivka – a suburb of the regional center. Except that Antonivka is almost completely destroyed, and the civilian infrastructure here is practically not functioning.
This is reported by Russian propagandists.
“According to testimonies… the perpetrators demanded that the pharmacist sell them medicinal products containing narcotic substances without the presentation of a doctor’s prescription. Having received a justified refusal for the illegal sale of the drugs, the men moved on to threats. The servicemen declared an intention to burn down the pharmacy, and also expressed threats of physical violence against the pharmacist. Having discovered a surveillance camera in the premises, the perpetrators left the pharmacy and disappeared in an unknown direction,” the Russians say.
Obviously, here we are dealing with a typical fake of Russian propaganda, since its authors refer to “their own sources”, that is, imagination. There can simply be no pharmacy, let alone one equipped with a surveillance camera, in Antonivka. If such an establishment were operating, it would have become a priority target for the occupiers.
“There can be no question of the existence of a peaceful population, but such risks are the conscious choice of those who remained there. Just about 10 months ago Antonivka was only beginning to ‘turn red’, now there is only the confrontation ‘operator against operator’,” noted the authors of the Telegram channel close to the Russian army “From Mariupol to the Carpathians” back in April 2026.
The Russians themselves publish footage of strikes on Antonivka almost daily, noting that the settlement is almost completely destroyed. Under such conditions, of course, no “pharmacy with surveillance cameras” can operate. Moreover, enemy drone operators consider any transport in Kherson a “legitimate target”. How, under such conditions, an invented “pharmacy” in the suburb would have replenished medicine supplies is also a big question.