# Fact check: Russia uses AI to spread fakes about a ‘women’s draft’ in Ukraine

https://mins.news/en/item/98172

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-10-13 14:38 UTC
- World
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/fact-check-russia-turns-to-ai-to-push-fakes-about-womens-draft-in-ukraine-2/

> Pro-Kremlin accounts and Russian media circulated AI-generated images falsely claiming Ukrainian women were being recruited or forced into military service. Fact-checkers found the posters were fabricated; Ukraine has neither introduced nor prepared a mandatory draft for women.