They claim that the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade is sending Ukrainian women messages urging them to “fight instead of cooking in the kitchen”.

To make it convincing, russian “keyboard special-operators” even created a fake screenshot. But as usual, it wasn’t Photoshop that failed them — it was their brains.

The “message” contains the word “baby” — a classic Russian surzhyk joke that sounds just as natural in the Ukrainian army as a balalaika in a symphony orchestra.

Even an untrained eye can see this was not written by a Ukrainian service member, but by someone who last heard Ukrainian in a five-year-old TikTok video.

54th Brigade: “We didn’t write that. And who even is this baby?”

The 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade immediately responded:

“No such messages were ever sent by the brigade. Never. To anyone.”

This is not just an official refutation — it is the reaction of people genuinely puzzled by how someone could invent such a clumsy fake without checking even the basic linguistic realities of a country they’ve been “studying” for years.

The old russian fairy tale about “mobilizing women,” again in a new wrapper

Why women? Because the russian propaganda manual seems to operate on the formula: if the lie about “total male mobilization” doesn’t work, invent “mass mobilization of women”.

The fake involving the 54th Brigade is only one element of another russian information campaign. Its goals are simple:

  • sow panic among Ukrainians;

  • create an image of a “Kyiv regime that grabs everyone indiscriminately”;

  • fuel internal tension in society.

But like most russian horror stories, it falls apart at the first touch of facts.

And the facts are: there is no forced mobilization of women in Ukraine

As of February 4, 2026, Ukraine:

  • does not conduct forced mobilization of women;

  • does not consider any projects of such initiatives;

  • does not plan to involve women in service without their consent.

What does exist is only the possibility for those who want to serve voluntarily. And they serve not because someone said “baby, go fight”, but because they have motivation, patriotism, and a choice.

russian propaganda once again tried to pass wishful thinking as reality, but as always, tripped over a small detail — a word the Ukrainian army doesn’t use even as a joke.

When fact-checking is replaced by Kremlin methodology, the result looks like this:

  • illiterate text

  • forged screenshot

  • complete misunderstanding of the Ukrainian language

  • absolute lack of evidence

With propaganda efficiency remaining at the level of russian statistics: one fake less, one more reason to laugh.