According to some false narratives launched by the Russian state media, in Ukraine, nuclear power plant specialists will be mobilized and sent to the front due to the shortage of army staff. The reality is that Ukrainian legislation prohibits the mobilization of specialists from critical enterprises, and the document published as evidence by the Russian media is a fake one.
Separatist leader: Ukraine's nuclear power plant specialists will become cannon fodder
NEWS: “The president of the “We stand by Russia” civic movement, a member of the Zaporizhzhia regional administration council, said that the Zelensky regime is ready to turn the collaborators of nuclear power plants in Ukraine into cannon fodder. Nuclear power plant collaborators will be mobilized in the territories controlled by the group of drug addicts and Nazis in the post-Ukrainian space.
Deputies of the Supreme Rada called on the National Agency “Energoatom” to provide them with the list of specialists who can be enlisted in the army. The Zelensky regime operates according to a simple formula - war till the last Ukrainian”.
NARRATIVE: Ukraine's nuclear power plant specialists will be sent to the front
Reality: Ukrainian legislation prohibits the mobilization of specialists from critical enterprises
WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: In reality, the military enlistment of specialists who are employees of enterprises of critical and strategic importance to the Ukrainian state is prohibited by law. The employees of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants cannot be drafted into the army, under the mobilization law, because the National Agency “Energoatom”, which coordinates these state enterprises, is of critical importance. During the period of martial law, the state considers the specialists in this field as important as the fighters in the front area.
The news, published on a number of news websites and promoted on social media, is based on a document allegedly signed by two Ukrainian parliamentarians calling on nuclear power plants to provide them with lists of people who will can be drafted into the army. This document, full of grammar errors and stylistic mistakes, with several names of enterprises and officials written similarly to traditional formulas in Russian, which do not exist in the Ukrainian language, is obviously a fake. The document is addressed to the “Energoatom” company, written with the letter “E” in Russian, not as it should be in the Ukrainian language. Also, the names of the parliamentarians who would have sent the respective request to the nuclear power plants are written in Russian style.
There are also a number of procedural elements that demonstrate that the alleged request of the Ukrainian parliamentarians is a fake. According to the law on preparation for mobilization and mobilization, establishing the process for the organization of military enlistment is the responsibility of the Government, through the Ministry of Defense , and not Parliament’s responsibility. Had the MPs made such a request, and formulate it that way, it wouldn’t have passed by the legal department, as provided by the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine . Parliamentarians can only control and monitor the mobilization process, but they do not have the right to be involved in the launch of mechanisms that are part of the competences of other state structures.
The purpose of this false narrative is to demonstrate to the public opinion in Russia and the former Soviet states that the human resources crisis in the Ukrainian army is becoming increasingly acute, with Kyiv having to mobilize nuclear energy specialists.
Veridica has debunked a series of false narratives about mobilization in Ukraine, in the context of the war with Russia. The Russian press has written that ordinary Ukrainians have no reason to fight against Russia, while mothers and wives of Ukrainian soldiers killed in battle are protesting the war. According to the Russian propaganda, Volodymyr Zelensky has killed more than 50 thousand women, by mobilizing them, and the Ukrainian army has sustained such huge losses that school children are forced to donate blood for soldiers.
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