Fact checks

2 months ago

Russian fake: Poles being prepared for nuclear accident

Propagandists forged the radiation emergency instructions of the Ministry of Health of Poland 

2 months ago

Russian propaganda fakes cover of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

The Kremlin is trying to hide the world's reaction to an armed mutiny attempt in Russia

2 months ago

Russian fake: Ukrainian military ordered to mobilize civilian cars in Kherson region

Propagandists forged a "document" confusing the name of a military unit commander 

3 months ago

Russian fake: Ukrainian teacher sent to front with hunting rifle without cartridges

Propagandists faked a screenshot from the Facebook account of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade but missed many details

3 months ago

Russian fake: Newest Su-57 destroys Ukrainian aircraft at record distance

Propagandists resorted to several manipulations to create an advertising fake about their "state-of-the-art" fighter jet

3 months ago

Russian fake: Olena Zelenska receives Israeli passport

The Russian propaganda is spreading a fake photo of a "document" on the Internet

3 months ago

Russian fake: Russian Federation sends another echelon of newest tanks to Ukraine

Propagandists used an old video to "prove" their military capability

3 months ago

Russia’s Defense Ministry passes its burned-out tank off as a Ukrainian one

Russian propaganda continues to invent victories for its army

3 months ago

Russian fake: Ukraine’s military intelligence actively looking for Russian-standard uniform for provocations in Belgorod region

Propagandists invented an order for a Ukrainian company and "bought up" uniform that has not been available for five years

3 months ago

Russian fake news: Ukrainian refugee demolished monument to Poles' struggle against Nazism

Propagandists portrayed decision by Polish authorities as act of vandalism committed by Ukrainian

3 months ago

Russian fake: CIA agent ‘killed’ in missile strike in Kyiv

Was the 140th star really installed at the CIA headquarters in his memory?

3 months ago

Russian fake about Nova Kakhovka: Animals did not die as there was no zoo

How TASS refuted the Ukrainian media reports, citing a "representative of emergency services"

3 months ago

Russian fake about Kyiv HPP: 4-meter wave will cover Obolon

The Russians passed an apocalyptic forecast of a pseudo-expert off as the statement by local authorities

3 months ago

Photo fake about strikes on ‘military objects’ in Dnipro city

Russian propaganda illustrated a missile attack on Ukraine with footage of forest fires in Tyumen region

3 months ago

How Kremlin Enriches Disinformation with Depleted Uranium

Russian propaganda is trying to sow panic after the attack on Khmelnytskyi on May 13. To this end, they invented a message about a “radiation catastrophe.” 

4 months ago

Russian propaganda faked front cover of French weekly Courrier International

The newspaper has recently criticized Russian authorities - "Putin has known for a long time that he lost"

4 months ago

Russian propaganda shot down NATO's F-16 jet over Bakhmut with Kinzhal

The fact that these jets have not even been handed over to Ukraine did not prevent Russians from creating fake news

4 months ago

Genocide of Crimeans: Russian propagandists fabricate intel chief Budanov’s video interview

Russian propagandists have combined different extracts from a video interview with the chief of the Ukrainian intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov

4 months ago

Rusfake: Ukrainians sell ambulances from Dutch volunteers for spare parts

Manipulation of online ads is one of the tools regularly used by Russian propaganda to create fakes

4 months ago

Russian propaganda trying to hide war crime in Mykolaiv

Traditional fakes are no longer enough, fake 'fact checks' are used instead

4 months ago

Russian fake: Nuclear disaster in Ukraine

Russian propaganda used footage of explosions in Iran and Syria for illustration

4 months ago

Fake about war: Ukrainians in Estonia being called up for military training under threat of deportation

Russian propaganda has created a new "trend" - Europe wants to "mobilize" Ukrainians abroad

4 months ago

Russian fake news: Sumy, Chernihiv regions overrun with Poles, while Ukrainians driven out of homes

If Ukrainians leave the regions neighboring with Russia, it is because Russian missiles and bombs

4 months ago

Sunken German-made Marder IFV: Afghanistan in 2010 was portrayed as Ukraine in 2023

Russian propaganda continues to create false stories about Ukrainian tankers and German military equipment

4 months ago

Russian propagandists invent fake about bonfire marshmallow scented candles ‘House of Trade Unions’

Propagandists invented another fake to mark the "sacred date"

4 months ago

Russian propaganda: Military corps being formed in Poland to join war efforts in Ukraine

The Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian Brigade was established back in 2014 but is not involved in the war raging in Ukraine

5 months ago

Russian fake news: NGU commander allegedly orders that violators be shot dead at checkpoints

Russian propagandists have fabricated an order allegedly issued by a commander of one of military units in the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU)

5 months ago

Religious deception: what Russian propaganda portrays as 'satanic rites' by Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Russia continues to discredit the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

5 months ago

Russian fake regarding Ukrinform: non-existent report of non-existent bill

It is not the first time that propagandists have exploited the design style of Ukrinform's reports to post fake news.

5 months ago

Easter manipulation: Americans paint potatoes instead of eggs

For the Americans – a joke and entertainment, for Russian propaganda – a reason to report the “economic crisis” in the USA

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