Pro-Russian sources have spread information that on November 17, 2024, while repelling a massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine, a Ukrainian servicewoman allegedly hit not a Russian missile, but a house. Thus, she left people homeless.

However, this is not true, as reported by the StopFake project. There is no evidence that the house was destroyed as a result of a shot fired by a Ukrainian servicewoman from an Igla MANPADS.

The propagandists are referring to the story of Nataliia Hrabarchuk, who actually destroyed a Russian cruise missile using an Igla MANPADS during its first combat launch on November 17. This was confirmed by the Ukrainian Air Force. They also noted that Hrabarchuk had been undergoing training courses at a training center for five months, mastered various types of portable anti-aircraft missile systems, and is now an anti-aircraft gunner in the anti-aircraft missile unit of the Galicia-Volyn Radio Technical Brigade of the Zakhid (West) Air Command.

The falsity of the information about the “destruction of the house” is also indicated by the fact that its original source has previously spread fakes. This source tries to mimic Ukrainian, but in fact regularly publishes disinformation narratives and fake stories.

Before serving in the army, Nataliia Hrabarchuk worked as a kindergarten teacher, and now she defends the Ukrainian skies together with other women. This is one of the reasons why this story went viral, and propagandists, in turn, began to speculate on it.

Earlier, we refuted the information that the cause of the tragedy in Sumy was allegedly “the work of Ukrainian air defense”.