Tuesday, September 16, 2025

StopFake #194 with Marko Suprun

Fake: Ukraine troops kill separatist defector. Cholera found in the Azov Sea. President Poroshenko allows lumber smuggling to the EU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWe-OQEwo98

Figure of the Week: $400 Million

By EU vs Disinfo Last week, a series of articles was published in the U.S. media relating to a $400-million donation allegedly made by U.S.-born...

The Russian Military: ‘friendly and open’ or aggressive and dangerous – the evidence

By Polygraph Sergey Shoigu Russian Defense Minister “In such conditions, we demonstrate openness, friendliness and the absence of any sort of aggression against foreign countries.” Source: RT, July...

Fake: Donbas Talks on Prisoner Exchange Collapse because of Ukraine

Scores of Russian media reported that the latest talks on prisoner exchanges between Ukraine  and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics held in...

Fake News and Fake Solutions: How Do We Build a Civics of Trust?

By Ivan Sigal. for Global Voices We need to start serious conversations about systemic social challenges, rather than tinkering with their effects In his recent manifesto, Mark Zuckerberg...

The Trump-Putin summit was a win for Russia. Why aren’t they celebrating?

By Sarah Manney, July 25, 2018 After last weekend’s summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, widely held in the West as a...

Russia tries everything to blacken reputation of White Helmets

By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake Russia escalated its long-running hate campaign against the White Helmets Syrian rescue group in response to the evacuation over...

Fake: Ukraine Troops Kill Separatist Defector

The Ukrainian military killed a separatist militant who wanted to take advantage of the Ukrainian Security Service’s  (SBU) “They’re Waiting for you at Home”...

Fake: Poroshenko Allows Lumber Smuggling to EU

“Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko authorizes lumber smuggling to EU countries” declared a July 23 headline in the pro-Kremlin internet site Ukraina.ru. Having vetoed a...

The justifiable outrage at Western reporting on Ukraine

By Ariana Gic, for StopFake Only July 23, the BBC’s Panorama aired “The Faked Murder that Fooled the World”, about the staged murder of a...