Russia fabricates story claiming pensioners in Kherson were given pig heads and hooves as 'humanitarian aid'

Russian Telegram channels are circulating screenshots purportedly taken from the official social media account of the Kherson City Military Administration. The images show local residents allegedly receiving "soup kits" consisting of pig heads and hooves. The accompanying text claims that local authorities distributed such aid to support residents.

This is fake. The images were manipulated using graphic editing software. In the original photos, Kherson residents are receiving humanitarian aid from international charitable organizations. Moreover, the photos were taken in November 2025, while propagandists first began spreading them on March 30, 2026.

The text in the fake posts also does not comply with Ukrainian language norms. In particular, the word "pensionerov" is written in Russian.

This fake narrative is aimed at discrediting the local authorities of Kherson, a city liberated from Russian occupation but still claimed by Russian propaganda as "theirs." Within this narrative, propagandists promote the claim that Ukraine's legitimate authorities are supposedly "occupation" authorities and lack compassion for their own citizens.

It is worth noting that indifference toward people, bordering on contempt, is in fact characteristic of Russia itself. For example, in the Russian city of Ussuriysk, the mother of a fallen occupying soldier was reportedly given a plush toy.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, Russian propaganda earlier conducted a large-scale disinformation campaign targeting the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy region.

Andrii Olenin