Anonymous telegram channels and media spreading pro-Russian rhetoric note that Zelenskyi allegedly “ordered the withdrawal of police from Ukrainian cities”. And since the army is supposedly going to be replenished with employees of the National Police, Ukrainian cities where “crime and arbitrariness rule” may be left without law enforcement officers. It's fake.

 As experts of the StopFake project note, official sources do not confirm that they gave such an order. Moreover, according to Ukrainian legislation and the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to the Laws of Ukraine “On the National Police” and “On the Disciplinary Charter of the National Police of Ukraine”” in order to optimize the work of the police, including during the martial law regime, police officers are in the category which has a deferment from military service during mobilization.

Also, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko reported that during the Great War in Ukraine the number of crimes decreased.

Thus, Russian propaganda is trying to discredit the Ukrainian authorities, sow fear among the public and present Ukrainians as criminals. Earlier, Detector Media refuted the fake that the crime rate in Ukraine increased by 270% because people were given weapons.