StopFake #211 with Marko Suprun
Fake: UN Crimea draft resolution on human rights violations on the peninsula filled with lies. Freezing Ukrainians riot because of lack of heat. The seven commandments of fake news. https://youtu.be/xhn5frCw4MM
Fake: UN Crimea Resolution Lies about Repressions on the Peninsula
Since Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014, Russian media have been busy constructing their narrative about the happy haven that they claim Crimea is today.
Fake: Freezing Ukrainians Riot
Ukraina.ru and scores of other Russian media reported that Ukrainians were rioting throughout the country because they had no heat or hot water in their homes.
StopFake #210 with Brian Mefford
Fake: Crimea EU representative office. Poland to leave EU. Donbas conflict participants create Russian-Ukrainian union. Ukraine to jail Russians for visiting Crimea. https://youtu.be/D9ajJw0R0SI
Fake: Ukrainian Ministry funds radical nationalistic organisations
On November 12, the Washington Post published an article entitled "Training kids to kill at Ukrainian nationalist camp", which later appeared in other publications as well.
Fake: Poland Leaving the EU
European Union bursting at the seams, Poland ready to leave, announced Ukraina.ru, RIA and TASS on October 11, claiming that Warsaw was poised to launch “Polexit” because of a conflict with Brussels.
StopFake #209 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Hungarian teenagers kill Ukrainian boy in Transcarpathia. Germany supports Crimea annexation. Ukraine secretly cedes its borders to the EU.
Fake: Ukraine to Jail Russians for Visiting Crimea
RIA Novosti, RT, Ukraina.ru and others featured stories last week claiming that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had called for a law that would make Russian tourists who visited annexed Crimea or the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics subject to criminal punishment.
Schools of Hate: Fakes and Manipulation about Ukraine Boot Camps for Children
Scores of Russian online media aimed to scare their readers last week with headlines such as Barracks for children, western media see Ukrainian Nazism, and Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children schooled in hate and war.
Fake: Ukraine Secretly Cedes its Borders to the EU
Propagandist Russian publication Ukraina.ru announced that passengers at Kyiv and Odesa airports were being screened by border guards from EU countries. “Polish, Lithuanian and even Italian border guards are checking Ukrainian passengers traveling to Europe” Ukraina.ru claims.