Fact checks

1 year ago

Russian propaganda’s fake report claims U.S. troops stage flash mob against war with Russia

Every decision made by Ukraine’s partners to provide weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces is followed by a barrage of Russian fake news.

1 year ago

Leopards for Ukrainian Armed Forces: Russian fake news has already reached Berlin Zoo

In response to Russian fake, representatives of the zoo expressed their support for Ukraine

1 year ago

Leopard tanks from Poland bugging Russian propagandists

Old narratives about new tanks and fake map of Ukraine on Polish TV channel

1 year ago

Russian propaganda invents fake story of Ukrainian “reality show” from front lines

The perpetrators designed a fake name for the show, "In the Trenches," as well as purported correspondence with Netflix.

1 year ago

Poland refutes fake story about “Polish crews of Leopard 2 tanks being sent to Ukraine”

Russian propaganda is circulating an allegation that Polish tankers are being sacked for refusing to fight in Ukraine

1 year ago

Russian propaganda spreading fake on “mass mobilization of women” in Ukraine

“Mom, I don't want to be a ‘moskal’” and traditional mistakes of Russian fake news

1 year ago

Russian propaganda spreading fake leaflets about mobilization of dogs in Ukraine

‘Shepherd, Labrador, Boxer, Rottweiler and other large strong dog breeds’

1 year ago

‘Removing swastika at half price’: Russian tattoo studio passed off as Ukrainian

A tattoo studio in Russia’s Biysk has been passed off as Ukrainian by Russian propaganda

1 year ago

'Canonizing' Biden

Russian propaganda created a fake petition from Ukrainians on the Change.org platform

1 year ago

Russian propagandists ramp up fake news about salt shortage in Ukraine

No other evidence of control over Soledar was found.

1 year ago

Russian fakes about mobilization in Ukraine: No one left to draft but firefighters

Russian propaganda does not stop even at manipulating the social media posts dedicated to honoring the memory of the fallen

1 year ago

Russian propaganda ramping up fakes about mobilization in Ukraine

Claiming Ukrainian men are grabbed in the street, and lists of evaders are posted on poles

1 year ago

Russia fueling narrative about Poland’s alleged intentions to occupy western Ukraine

Russian Telegram channels spread a fake story about street name signs and signboards in Polish in Lviv city and region.

1 year ago

Russian propaganda ‘spreads’ cholera in Odesa: first on leaflets, then in Telegram

A specialized state institution refuted fake news that was tried to be propagated on behalf of a private company

1 year ago

Russian propaganda creates fake stories about children in ranks of Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Propagandists are also attempting to discredit Plast and other Ukrainian patriotic organizations

1 year ago

In absurd fake, Russian media “conceive” another “Biden” in Ukraine

Russian propaganda forged the birth certificate to claim a child born in Khmelnytskyi region was named “Biden.”

1 year ago

Russian manipulation of Ukrainian Christmas retro train

Russian media claims that Ukraine has switched to steam locomotives due to power problems

1 year ago

Russian propaganda fabricating fakes about “protests” in Ukraine

A rally that took place two years ago is reported as the one held just recently, while the town involved was stated falsely, too.

1 year ago

Russian propagandists imitate cover of magazine that repeatedly mocked Putin

Which president and what did the American political satire magazine Humor Times actually write about

1 year ago

Russian propaganda makes up installation and demolition of monument to Putin in Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr Mayor Serhii Sukhomlyn has called this message “utter nonsense”

1 year ago

‘Bio laboratories’ in Odesa: cynicism that cannot reach the bottom

Russian propaganda used a photo from Bucha to spread a fake about the sale of "biomaterial" of fallen soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

1 year ago

Russian propagandist fakes: Was there a protest rally in Slovakia against arms supplies to Ukraine?

A video of a protest rally in Bratislava, filmed during the coronavirus pandemic two years ago, has been passed off as fresh

1 year ago

Russian propaganda keeps spreading fakes about Western arms sales to third countries by Ukraine

Only Pushilin could be used as a non-anonymous source to promote well-known narrative 

1 year ago

World Cup and Russian fakes

Russian propaganda forged the Qatar Football Association's appeal to Ukraine

1 year ago

Religious fake news: What Russian propaganda fabricates ahead of Christmas

Russia trying to make Russian-speaking Ukrainians distrust Orthodox Church of Ukraine

1 year ago

Russia switches Europeans to horses and donkeys

Making high fuel price threats, Russian propaganda spreads "European" ad shot in Moscow suburbs

1 year ago

Anti-Ukrainian fake: Disguised Russian propaganda calls on Europeans not to help Ukraine

A fake "social advertisement" purporting to be from a European research consortium is circulating across Runet

1 year ago

“Foreigners fascinated”: How Russian propaganda manipulates comments in foreign mass media

Fake reports about Putin’s positive image abroad follow one and the same pattern

1 year ago

Genre crisis: Russian propaganda spreads same fake, changing only city name

The Russian media arranged a European tour from Warsaw to Paris suburbs for a photo forgery with a caricature of Zelensky

1 year ago

Russian media ‘plunge Ukraine into Middle Ages’ after blackout by inventing ‘Apocalyptic pictures’

The National Police refuted a Russian fake about a crime spike in Ukraine due to power outages.