“The wife of Ukrainian journalist Bohdan Butkevich Marina Danylyuk-Yarmolaeva stated that her husband was released from freelance work in GUR and mobilized for criticism of the authorities despite health problems. GUR denied cooperation with Butkevich, in the Land Forces reported details of the journalist’s mobilization.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Sources: Marina Danylyuk-Yarmolaeva on Facebook, GUR in a comment by Hromadske, a spokesman for the Land Forces Colonel Vitaliy Sarantsev in a comment to the UP
Details: Late on the evening of July 9, Butkevich’s wife published a post on the social network, saying that in recent years the husband “had a freelance conduct for GUR on the territory of the enemy.”
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According to her, Butkevich went to such cooperation because he has several diseases of the eyes that do not allow him to serve “in the classical sense”, and had all military accounting documents in order.
At the same time, after criticism at the People’s Deputy Maryana Bezsloy, Gur allegedly stopped cooperation with Butkevich, releasing “retroactively”. Thereafter, the journalist was returned to the military personnel to the Reserve +, they wanted to be wanted and they were going to send to the Desna Training Center.
On July 10, the General Intelligence Directorate in a comment by Hromadske stated that “Bogdan Butkevich was not and is not an employee of GUR.”
In the command of the Land Forces “Ukrainian Truth, the following was told. By April 2025, Butkevich had a reservation, which was removed by the system automatically due to the change of legislation. He came to the shopping center, since he had the conclusion of the VLK” restricted “, to clarify the military.
“He was sent to the collection point and dropped to the training center for the passage of BZVP for limited fit,” – added KSV spokesman Vitaliy Sarantsev.
The journalist in social networks did not comment on the situation at all.