Shkvarka News tried to back up a fake Ukrainian court ruling with a forged document

The authors of the Telegram channel Shkvarka News published the alleged court ruling received by the mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier on April 2, 2025.

"A woman from the Kyiv region wrote "Illegally mobilized" on the headstone of her son, who was killed near Sumy. Now she’s being harassed on social media and pressured to remove the inscription through the courts, or else the cemetery administration will take down the headstone," says the post.

As evidence, they posted photos of the headstone and the court ruling.

What caught our attention was the formatting of the document. A legitimate court ruling must include details in the upper right corner—such as the case number and judicial proceeding reference. In addition, a judge is required to justify the decision by citing relevant legal statutes. None of that appears on the document shared in the post.

The WTF team looked into whether such a document actually exists. We searched Ukraine’s unified court registry by the date of the ruling and found that no judges with those names issued any decisions that day. We also searched for the judges’ names and keywords from the text, but came up empty.

That leads to one conclusion: the document shared by the Telegram channel’s authors is a fake.