StopFake #203 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Kyiv gives up Crimea. Hungarian Foreign Minister threatens Ukraine with NATO troops. Ukraine responsible for dangerous emissions in Crimea. Ukrainian President’s wife finds...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Bellingcat has identified Skripal suspect as GRU agent, the Kremlin continues...
Topics of the Week
Ruslan Boshirov, one of the two suspects in the Skripal poisoning, has been identified as a GRU colonel by investigators from Bellingcat.
A new...
Fake: Kyiv Lacks Money to Pay Pensions in Occupied Territories
Kyiv can’t pay pensions to people in the Luhansk and Donetsk occupied territories because of lack of funds, declared Russian and separatist media this...
Fake: IMF Policies Deprive Ukrainians of their Land
“The people will be left without land” is one of Moscow’s favorite scare narratives about International Monetary Fund policies in Ukraine. This week saw...
Fake: Hungarian Foreign Minister Threatens Ukraine with NATO Troops
This week several Ukrainian and Russian sites disseminated fakes claiming that the Hungarian foreign minister threatened Ukraine with NATO troops. In reality Hungary’s Foreign...
Fake: Ukrainian President’s Wife Finds True Ukrainian Identity Only in the US
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s wife Marina allegedly said that true Ukrainian identity is found in the United States. This claim was disseminated by the...
The Disinformation Maps Aimed at Tearing Our World Apart
By EU vs Disinfo
With a quick move, the camera zooms in on the map of Ukraine. One by one, pieces of Ukrainian territory get...
Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga
By Bellingcat Investigation Team
Bellingcat and its investigative partner The Insider – Russia have established conclusively the identity of one of the suspects in the poisoning...
Fake: Protective Levee on Ukrainian Territory Damaged
Scores of Russian media reported this week that a levee on Ukrainian territory separating lake Sivash from an acid waste accumulator facility belonging to...
Figure of the Week: 20
By EU vs Disinfo
Facebook is opening a “War Room” to protect elections from disinformation attempts on the social network.
Scheduled to become operative on 24 September, the...