A Polish pro-Russian Telegram channel, citing representatives of the ‘Mykolaiv underground’, spread information that hospitals in the city of Dnipro are overflowing with ‘high-ranking NATO military personnel’. These patients are ‘so high-profile’ that SBU officers are allegedly on duty at the entrance and on the floors of hospitals, demanding that doctors sign confidentiality agreements. This secrecy regime is allegedly introduced in the event of ‘serious incidents involving Alliance generals’.

However, this information has nothing to do with reality. The Polish pro-Russian Telegram channel, which spreads the ‘news’ about NATO generals in Dnipro hospitals, regularly produces disinformation about the war in Ukraine.

In addition, this is not the first time that propagandists have referred to the so-called ‘Mykolaiv underground’. We previously reported on a fake that ‘black transplantologists’ had arrived in the Sumy region - the source of this disinformation was precisely representatives of this ‘resistance movement’.

Recently, the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security reported that, in addition to direct work for Russia, the myth of the ‘Mykolaiv underground’ was created for propaganda purposes. After all, in reality, Russian special services do not have a powerful network in Ukraine. In most cases, they either simply pay or promise to pay unwitting citizens of Ukraine for carrying out certain assignments. Instead, the agitprop talks about a ‘numerous ideological underground’ that supposedly selflessly helps Russia ‘liberate Ukraine’.