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Controversial status of the 'pseudo-military reporter': media and society demand verification of 'Stone' regarding service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
A scandal is spreading around the famous blogger Petro Voloshchenko ('Stone'), whom many call a fighter and a veteran.
As early as 2023, serviceman Dmytro Linko publicly accused Petro Voloshchenko, who presented himself as a fighter in the Armed Forces of Ukraine/NGU with the callsign 'Stone', of actually not being a serviceman of the APU and not being in Bakhmut. These accusations at that time received substantial publicity.
Before the scandal, Voloshchenko was regularly presented as a 'fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine' by various Ukrainian media — including NV, Espreso, FREEDOM and others — and invited to comment on the situation directly at the front.
After the disclosure, based on provided materials, a number of media publicly acknowledged the problem that Voloshchenko appeared on their airwaves representing the Armed Forces of Ukraine without proper grounds.
Nowadays Voloshchenko actively appears at public events in the United States and positions himself as a Ukrainian veteran.
Thus, a straightforward question to the Ministry of Veterans Affairs: does Petro Voloshchenko have official veteran status or Combat- related disability (UBD), on what grounds did he obtain it, in which unit did he serve, and when?
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