FAKE! Provocateurs are spreading information about alleged raids on school teachers regarding “violations of the language law”

“Ukrainian social media have been discussing for a day now some kind of brutal inspections of Odesa teachers regarding compliance with… language legislation. There are searches, rummaging through phones, and other horrible stuff”, - writes one of the russian bloggers.

Numerous channels of russian PSYOP report that teachers’ personal belongings are being inspected and the contents of their phones are being checked, allegedly to identify their “russian-language use”.

In reality, information about mass “raids” and inspections of teachers’ personal gadgets in Odesa is not confirmed by official or independent sources and shows signs of a planned information injection.

Its source was publications in pro-russian social networks and a number of openly anti-Ukrainian outlets, such as “Strana.ua”. State russian media picked up this “sensation”. All of them refer to a post by the former head of the Odesa education department, Olena Buinevych, who mentioned “teachers’ complaints” about inspections of personal belongings in schools of the Peresypskyi district of Odesa.