Propagandists began re-distributing the old fake news using bot farms. According to it, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine should allegedly resign due to martial law. As it is written in the Constitution of Ukraine. However, this is fake.

Specialists of the NotaYenota project drew attention to it. They found errors in these messages (in particular, according to Ukrainian legislation in Ukraine it is not “military”, as indicated in the message, but martial law), and also found out that the Constitution clearly defines that during a martial law or state of emergency the powers of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine continue until the day of the first meeting of the new convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, elected after the end of the martial law or state of emergency (Article 83, paragraph 3). During the period of martial law, the powers of the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the National Bank of Ukraine and other higher bodies cannot be terminated (Article 10 of the Law “On the Legal Regime of Martial Law”).

The post indicated in the publication is distributed using a botnet with the aim of sowing discord in Ukrainian society. They say that the war is not worth it, because the deputies continue to sit in the Rada, so the war must be stopped on Russia’s terms. However, legal inaccuracies indicate that the messages are fake.