Pro-Russian telegram channels, with reference to the head of the occupation administration of the Kherson region - collaborator Volodymyr Saldo - are spreading reports about an alleged outbreak of a bacterial infection in Kherson. Propagandists add that the infection was caused by the contamination of the Dnipro with the bodies of Ukrainian military personnel and the failure of treatment facilities. The population of “areas controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces” is allegedly under threat.

However, after verifying information in the Kherson Regional Military Administration about the sanitary and epidemic situation in the city, the Center for Countering Disinformation reported that no outbreaks of infections were recorded, and the epidemic situation was normal.

Also recently, a daily study of sanitary water indicators was carried out in the Chornobaiv community of the Cherkasy region. However, even there, the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection did not find dangerous deviations from the norms, the Center adds.

With this stuffing, the Russians are once again trying to sow panic among the residents of the Kherson region and discredit the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whose dead bodies are the cause of the pollution of the Dnipro and, accordingly, the infection itself.