The video allegedly prohibiting military-eligible men from leaving Dnipro is a fake. The Center for Countering Disinformation established that the video is based on real footage from Ukrainian TikTok, onto which a fabricated audio recording was superimposed. Dnipro is not included in the mandatory evacuation zones, and Ukrainian legislation does not contain any restrictions on evacuation for military-eligible individuals.
The original video was filmed on August 7 at the Dnipro railway station - during a significant delay of trains due to Russian attacks on Ukrzaliznytsia infrastructure. The announcer in the real recording was announcing the transfer of passengers to buses. There was no mention of an evacuation ban.
To turn this recording into disinformation, a fabricated audio was superimposed on it. In the fake version, it is allegedly announced via loudspeaker that military-eligible individuals are prohibited from leaving the city even during intense shelling. Enemy publics additionally promoted the version that the queue at the station arose due to "document checks." This is how Russia spreads the fake about the alleged ban on leaving Dnipro.
According to the Center for Countering Disinformation, the goal of the operation is to provoke panic among Dnipro residents and to conceal the real cause of the transport collapse: systematic Russian strikes on Ukrainian railways. Ukrainians are urged not to trust information from unverified sources, especially Russian ones.
