Friendly Neighbourhood Partisan

The provocateur posing as medic and her accomplice in a fake ambulance spinning up a story about a propanganda story about an allegedly kidnapped 14-year-old being forcibly mobilized by a military unit and held in a private home in Kyiv has been detained. The woman has previously been sentenced for assault, drunk driving and fleeing the scene of a car accident while her associate has previously been accused of espionage. Ukraine’s Interior Ministry has held a briefing with other security agencies on what happened yesterday in front of the house in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka. The deputy head of the SBU said the organizers of the propaganda protest had planned the action in advance. Authorities said the woman who posed as a “medic” had visited the same spot three days earlier for “reconnaissance.” It later emerged that the woman is not a medic at all. Her name is Valentyna Moloda and she is the owner of a plastic and aesthetic surgery clinic. She arrived at the scene in an ambulance bearing the logo of the private clinic “Medprestizh,” which closed three years ago. One of the conditions when the ambulance was sold had been that the closed clinic's logos would be removed from the ambulance. Valentyna had a journalist accreditation badge around her neck and showed people videos of alleged beatings that had been recorded in advance. Her phone contained correspondence with several media outlets that began spreading the story on their social networks. She is now accused of participating in special operations against Ukraine in the information space and obstructing the work of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In 2020, a case was opened against her for intentional infliction of minor bodily harm. She was declared wanted at the time. In addition, she was caught driving drunk and charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Ukrainian journalists have identified two more participants in the events in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka. Viktor Yena was also dressed up as a medic and accompanied to the fake medic Valentyna Moloda. Journalists found no medical diploma for Yena, and the court register contains cases against him for unauthorized absence from service, fraud, and drunk driving. The second identified person, Andriy Rachok, livestreamed the clashes on TikTok. He is an associate of pro-Russian Ostap Stakhiv, who is accused of leaking information about Ukrainian Armed Forces positions to the Russians. Rachok himself also appears in cases involving calls to seize state power, antisemitism, incitement of hatred, and denial of Russia’s armed aggression.