For respective days now, news has been circulating that respective 100 bodies have been found in Bogdanka's mine. Moreover, reports say that Ukraine's Armed Forces uniforms were to be found with them. The bodies were allegedly devoid of organs to hit the black market. As you can easy guess, this communicative is completely fabricated.
False
More about our evaluation system:How read Kurier Lubelski, most likely the first individual to give false information about bodies in the Polish mine, was Ruslan Ostasko. He is simply a Russian tv presenter. These narratives rapidly reached information and social networks in Russia. They appeared on March 1, 2023, among others on the portal VContacte is Pravda.ru. All the above information indicates that it is part of the Russian disinformation campaign. News reached Poland quickly. They appeared, for example, Facebook, Telegram and Twitter. They besides circulate in the language Czech or English (examples Here. and Here.).
Source: telegram.orgBogdanka — Dementi
Mine authorities and local media rapidly reacted to false narratives. On pages Lubelski's courier was denied information by Kasjan Wyligala, president of the Management Board of Lubelski Węgiel “Bogdanka” S.A., and Antoni Pasieczny, president of NSZZ “Solidarity” in the mine. The erstwhile clearly linked these narratives to Russian misinformation. On our email we besides received the authoritative position of the company, given to us by the press spokesman, Jan Matysik:
Due to the publication by any broadcasters on Facebook (...) of false information about Ukrainian soldiers, Lubelski Węgiel “Bogdanka” SA dementes all the thesis contained in these articles and unequivocally condemns specified actions aimed at deliberately disinformation of Polish readers.
The full thing. He's made his point. Stanislaw Żaryn, Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary of the Government for safety of the Information Space of the Republic of Poland.
Source: twitter.comThe full situation is simply a classical example of Russian propaganda utilizing unofficial channels. In this mechanism, 1 of the Kremlovian propagandaists gives falsified information that does not come from authoritative channels of government communication in Moscow, but is released as a “side”. They are immediately captured by news sites and online accounts linked to Kremlin. In this way they go to the Polish infosphere, where they sow misinformation. The aim is to show Poles in a bad light as engaged in trafficking in black marketplace organs of fallen Ukrainians. In this way Russian propaganda tries to break the Polish-Ukrainian unity. any versions of disinformation communicative besides conveyed statements that Polish mercenaries were besides found among the soldiers, which would prove our country's engagement in direct armed actions in Ukraine.
Summary
Once again we are dealing with an example of classical Russian propaganda action. The usage of narratives about organ sales is intended to make strong emotions for the recipient of the message. This makes many people more willing to reproduce specified content. Unfortunately, erstwhile again, members of the Polish community of conspiracy theorists participate in the drive of the Kremelian disinformation. However, information about the discovery of the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers in the Bogdanka mine should be considered entirely false.
Sources
Courier Lublinski: https://kurierlubelski.pl/500-cial-na-teren-mine-bogdanka-tak-klamie-Russia/ar/c1-17338169
Lubelski Coal ‘Bogdanka’ S.A.: https://lw.com.pl/
