A letter appearing to be from the UK Government asks Ukrainian refugee hosts for data on any male adults staying with them and says such refugees should visit the Ukrainian embassy. But the letter is fake.
There are other clues that the letter isn’t genuine. The headline of the letter “Embassy of Ukraine inquiry to the UK governmen [sic] on precising the Ukrainian refugee status” contains a typo and is oddly worded.
Elsewhere, several words are strangely capitalised. You also might expect a letter telling hosts they need to tell their guests to report to a certain embassy might include its address.”, it returned an error message suggesting it’s not a genuine departmental address.Fact checkers in Lithuania alsoclaiming to be from the Ukrainian embassy there asking for the personal details of refugees to “assist our side in the return of citizens of Ukraine assigned to conscription”.
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