The National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting calls on the media to take a correct and professional approach in covering the mobilization process and the activities of the Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers, since these topics are subject to special information attacks through active focusing and dissemination of fakes by the enemy.

"The enemy is actively trying to form a negative attitude in Ukrainian society towards the mobilization process, ‘demonization’ of the Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers and their employees. The goal of such activity is to stop the mobilization, split society, sow panic and discord, and thus reduce the defense capability of our country," the National Council emphasized in its statement.

Thus, according to the National Media Literacy Project "Filter," the Russian authorities have allocated $1.6 billion in the state budget for propaganda. At the same time, the information efforts of the aggressor country are primarily aimed at the Ukrainian audience. First of all, Russian propaganda is trying to promote disinformation through the media related to the mobilization processes in Ukraine, manipulate public opinion, seeking to discredit Ukrainian state institutions and the army, as well as disorient and intimidate the population, split society due to fictitious disputes and pretentious narratives of disinformation and, as a result, reduce international support for Ukraine.

"The enemy clearly knows that the fewer Ukrainian fighters there are, the closer Russia's victory is. This can only be countered by combining the efforts of the people, the army and the media, and not by pitting them against each other," the National Council notes.

In this regard, the National Council calls on Ukrainian media to comply with professional standards, carefully study sources, including when citing foreign resources, the reliability and origin of any information, especially related to mobilization processes and military actions.

It is recommended that even when covering a controversial case of detention of a person by representatives of the Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers, quotes be used with the utmost caution, because emotional statements in such cases are natural, but their appearance in the media with distribution is distorted and gives them an exaggerated meaning.

The Ukrainian media, the National Council emphasizes, must understand that most reports of unpleasant facts come from social networks, where it is difficult to verify both the fact itself and, even more so, the circumstances of what happened, especially given the enemy’s activity – therefore, fact-checking is an unshakable basis for high-quality information.