“The scandal around Makarivka: Butusov said that the Ukrainian military is not surrounded, but DeepState did not lie December 23, 20:17 Share: DeepState map (Photo: Screenshot / deepstatemap.live) Military journalist and editor-in-chief of Censor.NET Yury Butusov commented on the situation around the village of Makarivka Donetsk region and accusing the DeepState project of publishing false information. Butusov recalled that a few days ago, DeepState displayed almost the entire environment on the map”, — write on: ua.news
DeepState map (Photo: Screenshot / deepstatemap.live)
Military journalist and editor-in-chief of Censor.NET Yuriy Butusov commented on the situation around the village of Makarivka in the Donetsk region and the accusation of the DeepState project for publishing false information.
Butusov recalled that a few days ago, DeepState mapped the almost complete surroundings of Makarivka. According to the map, the Russian invaders closed the encirclement around the village. At the same time, as the journalist noted, the analysts did not draw any conclusions regarding the encirclement of the Ukrainian military there.
On December 23, the press service of the Khortytsia Security Service reported that the information about the encirclement of the Defense Forces in Makarivka in the Vremiv direction in the Donetsk region is not true, and stated that the dissemination of unverified data threatens the Ukrainian military and may complicate their work.
“Unverified data and, as a result, false conclusions about the existence of such a situation are the result of the analysis of sources by individual observers and independent experts, the data in which do not correspond to the dynamics of hostilities,” the message said.
According to Butusov, this is how the Khortytsia Security Service responded to a message on social networks about the encirclement of the Armed Forces units in the village of Makarivka, which was made “by other bloggers based on DeepState map analysis.”
Butusov confirmed that the depiction on the DeepState map of the almost complete encirclement of Makarivka is true, but the Ukrainian military is not encircled.
“Several soldiers of one of our battalions remain in the area of the village, I am in contact with the soldiers of this battalion and have received detailed information about the situation. These data were also confirmed to me by one of the commanders of the Donetsk OTU. That is, DeepState did not lie, and completely different sources are responsible for the message about the encirclement of the troops,” the journalist said.
He also noted that OSUV Khortytsia has no complaints about the DeepState project. However, there they criticized the data on the basis of which messages were made in social networks.
“Obviously, if the OSUV had made a correct statement that there was no encirclement of our troops in Makarivka, and had limited it to that, then no problem would have arisen at all. And so OSUV obviously cast a shadow on the completely reliable DeepState map,” Butusov added.
“The enemy is trying to wedge in.” The Defense Forces denied the information about the encirclement of the Armed Forces near Makarivka in Donetsk region
The journalist stated that he contacted a source in the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was sure that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi has nothing to do with the story of the statement of OSUV Khortyts and is not exerting any pressure on DeepState. According to the source, OSUV will invite the DeepState team to a meeting to coordinate the coverage of the situation at the front.
On December 23, People’s Deputy Maryana Bezugla said that Oleksandr Syrskyi had apparently started “attack” on the DeepState team. According to the deputy, the commander-in-chief wants to mobilize his analysts and close the project.
DeepState analysts, in turn, stated that they always made maximum efforts for the victory of Ukraine and assistance to the Ukrainian military. However, as noted in the project, “not all heads of committees like the truth.”