Telegram channels, which are administered from Russia by employees of information and psychological special operations structures, are spreading lies about an alleged offensive toward Odesa and Mykolaiv. The speaker of the Odesa regional military administration, Sergei Bratchuk, said this on Facebook.

"So, everything goes to the fact that after the Donbass it will move towards Mykolaiv-Odesa. And then there will be a mess..." - promise the authors of the fake. Bratchuk notes that the purpose of another "throwing in" of the Russians about the alleged Russian offensive on South Palmyra after the fighting in the Donetsk and Lugansk direction is nothing but an attempt to disorient Ukrainians, sow panic, dissuade citizens and cover their own defeats from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"As you know, in the East of our state, the Armed Forces of Ukraine rejected the enemies in the Kharkiv direction, conduct successful combat operations in the Zaporozhye direction, deter the Rashists in the Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Luhansk directions. The enemy simply does not have the forces and opportunities for active operations in the south," says Serhiy Bratchuk.