Fake account with a photo of a Russian woman: information attack on the capital's Perinatal Center takes an unexpected turn

Recently, the director of the Kyiv Perinatal Center, Honored Doctor Dmytro Govseiev, stated that there is a smear campaign against him and the institution. This situation has developed further—an account appeared on Threads where a young mother tells her story of giving birth at this medical facility and claims she almost lost her child due to a doctor's indifference. UNN decided to investigate what is true in this story.

Alina.nevedova—the username under which the user was registered—created the account a few days before writing the post about the birth. She didn't show much activity until she decided, as she explained, to share her story for Mother's Day. According to her version, she "fell for a beautiful picture on the internet and trusted a TikTok doctor, Alyona Akimova." Obstetrician-gynecologist Alyona Akimova does indeed exist, works at the Perinatal Center, and, importantly, is active on social media. Therefore, she has a certain audience, which was likely intended to draw more attention to "Alina's" post.

The user claimed that the doctor immediately quoted a sum of $2,000 "for comfort during labor." In her post, "Alina" described that the pregnancy proceeded without complications until the 38th week, when she began to experience severe swelling and high blood pressure. According to her, Akimova responded to her message only two days later and reassured her that everything was normal. However, the pregnant woman's condition allegedly continued to deteriorate. Eventually, the woman went to the maternity hospital to see the doctor on duty, where her blood pressure was stabilized. "Alina" claimed she remained in the hospital for another 5 days before giving birth. She allegedly did not see Akimova during this time. As "Alina" recounted, when labor began, her blood pressure spiked, and her water broke with blood. The hospital staff supposedly reassured her that everything was fine, but as the user wrote: "action should have been taken then, because it was already placental abruption." The woman was allegedly kept in this state for 5-6 hours before being sent for an emergency C-section because the baby's heartbeat began to drop. Ultimately, the child was born, although, according to the woman, there was resuscitation, long-term treatment, and complications.

Admittedly, the story sounds horrific. It is made particularly emotional by the user's claim that her husband is at the front and therefore could not be present at the birth. Naturally, such a situation could not fail to elicit a response from users, and the girl was showered with words of support. Representatives of the Perinatal Center also appeared in the comments, trying to look into the situation. Specifically, they asked "Alina" to clarify exactly when she gave birth to establish all the circumstances. However, she did not respond. The Perinatal Center was also unable to identify such a patient in their records, as reported by the center's director, Dmytro Govseiev. He later added that "Alina's" account changed its name and deleted its photos.

We decided to investigate and found the real "Alina."  She turned out to be a young woman named Alla from Russia. Judging by her Instagram profile, she did indeed give birth not long ago, but it is unlikely she gave birth at the Kyiv Perinatal Center.

Over the past 24 hours, Alla has been actively reporting on her page that her photos are being used in fake social media profiles and asking followers to help "ban" these pages.

It is likely that one of these accounts is the very Threads account where the young mother complained about the doctors' actions.

The Perinatal Center views this situation as a continuation of the attack on the Perinatal Center and on Dr. Akimova.

Notably, "Alina" managed to make another statement on Threads:

"How I dream of going home forever. My unpopular opinion, I live in Frankivsk now and everything here is f*cking awful, both the city and the people, I haven't found a single plus for myself, so there," - "Alina's" original style is preserved.

A logical question arises—what is going on in the heads of those who devised such an information attack and, using a Russian woman's photo, first humiliated doctors and then an entire Ukrainian city? All while cynically claiming to have a husband at the front.

Currently, "Alina's" account is unavailable. But this is not the first and likely not the last attack of this kind on the capital's Perinatal Center, which has been under informational pressure for several months. The center's director, Dmytro Govseiev, spoke about the reasons for this situation. According to Govseiev, certain political forces and lobbyists for the interests of specific business structures may be behind such targeted actions.

In particular, he speaks of possible abuses by some individuals from political circles during the transfer of humanitarian aid to medical institutions and pressure on hospital heads to coerce them into certain contracts.

"In parallel, information campaigns are launched that create pressure on the heads of medical institutions. This forms a vicious circle: information pressure - decisions - profitable contracts. It is precisely such lobbyist groups that are actively working in the medical field today," Govseiev stated.