Russia spreads fake claiming Ukrainian troops use animal corpses for mines

Russian propaganda is spreading fake information claiming that Ukraine’s Armed Forces are allegedly using the bodies of dead animals for mining operations in the Kharkiv direction

The Center for Countering Disinformation reported the information.

Kremlin media claim that Ukrainian soldiers supposedly place explosives, magnetic mines, or motion sensors inside the bodies of cats and hares, creating “traps” for Russian soldiers.

The Center for Countering Disinformation emphasizes that these statements are blatant manipulation aimed at discrediting the Ukrainian military.

In reality, it is Russian forces who have repeatedly used such methods, mining animal bodies in forest belts, fields, and abandoned positions. Such cases have been documented by Ukrainian defenders — in particular, the bodies of hares dropped from drones have been used.

The Center stresses that spreading such fakes is a typical Kremlin tactic: shifting responsibility for their own war crimes onto the Ukrainian Armed Forces and distracting attention from the real terror that Russia is carrying out in the combat zone and in temporarily occupied territories.

Russian propaganda, through the so-called “international tribunal for investigating the crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis,” is also spreading fakes about alleged torture of Russian prisoners of war.