The CPD debunked a Russian fake about the occupation of the "Goptivka" checkpoint in the Kharkiv region by the occupiers
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The CPD debunked a Russian fake about the occupation of the "Goptivka" checkpoint in the Kharkiv region by the occupiers

Center for Countering Disinformation of Ukraine
Goptivka

Hostile TG channels are spreading reports that the Russian Armed Forces have allegedly captured the Goptivka checkpoint in the Kharkiv region. This Russian propaganda claim was denied by the Center for Countering Disinformation.

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  • The Center for Countering Disinformation refuted a Russian fake news claim about the occupation of the Goptivka checkpoint in the Kharkiv region.
  • The Goptivka checkpoint remains under full control of the Ukrainian Defense Forces despite reports of Russian Armed Forces capturing it.
  • Ukrainian military sources confirm that the enemy attempted to storm the checkpoint, but were repelled with casualties on their side.

Information about the capture of the Goptivka checkpoint by Russians is fake

In fact, the Goptivka checkpoint is under the full control of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.

Russian propaganda box

This was reported by the head of the Dergachivskaya MVA Vyacheslav Zadorenko.

According to him, the enemy did indeed storm this checkpoint, but the Ukrainian military eliminated more than 10 occupiers, and dozens of others fled.

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