Both the police and the court, near which the woman tried to commit self-immolation, refuted this version. In reality, the woman was in the process of the court case over child custody.
A resident of Rokytne in the Kyiv region, set herself on fire as a sign of protest against the fact that her husband was not granted mobilization postponement – this «news» was published by numerous pro-Russian sources. Ukrainian Telegram channels were the first to give such an explanation for the woman’s act, but provided no evidence. Other versions of what actually happened also spread online, but they are always related to the topic of mobilization in one way or another – for example, some Facebook users claim that the woman was a nurse and did not have time to update her info in the drafting office, for which she received a fine of 17 thousand hryvnias. This allegedly pushed her to self-immolation. It is reported that the woman is now in the hospital with burns on 80% of her body.
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However, these versions were refuted by both the police and the Rokytne District Court, in front of which this incident took place. The Kyiv region police reported that the woman spilled flammable substances all over her body and set herself on fire near the courthouse on July 18 around 4:00 p.m. Employees immediately noticed her. They began to extinguish the woman and called the police. When the medics arrived, the woman was conscious, but in a serious condition, so she was immediately taken to the hospital. According to the police, the victim and her husband were resolving issues regarding custody over a child in court, which could have pushed her to this act. The Rokytne District Court also clarified the details of this story: about 2 p.m. on the same day, the citizen turned to them for information on the status of her custody case. According to them, she behaved aggressively and threatened to set the court building or herself on fire. Since the citizen ignored the remarks of the employees, they had to call the law enforcement agencies, who took the woman out of the courthouse and escorted her to the police station. But two hours later, the woman returned to the square near the court, where she set herself on fire.
The law enforcement officers opened a criminal case regarding pushing a person to commit suicide (Part 1 of Article 120 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code). Those guilty of this face up to three years in prison. In the Rokytne online group, the victim’s neighbors claim that the victim has been trying to resolve the issue of child custody through the court for more than two years, and was outraged by how long this case has been going on. So, although the police are still establishing all the details of this story, the version that the woman set herself on fire because her husband was not given a deferral for mobilization is not confirmed by any credible source.
Read the refutation of another fake about a postponement of mobilization in the article Fake: Ukrainians Pay Money to Get Their Limb Broken and Receive Military Service Postponement.
