Fake: Ukraine Can Face Olympic Ban
Russian Defense Ministry’s official publication Zvezda’s latest fake declares that Ukraine could be banned from the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Ukrainian athletes could be...
Fake: Future Maidan Museum Copies Hitler’s Architecture Projects
Comparing Ukraine to Nazi Germany is a beloved trope of the Russian disinformation machine. The latest fake to continue this tradition appeared on June...
Russian arms manufacturer leads gullible citizens of “space nation”
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
The “space nation” of Asgardia attracted global headlines last month when its “Head of Nation”, 54-year-old Igor Ashurbeyli, was...
Fake: EU Financial Aid for Ukraine in Exchange for Migrants
Last week Russian media returned to a favorite disinformation theme with a story claiming the EU and Ukraine were negotiating the settlement of African...
StopFake #190 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukrainian rock star calls for destruction of current rule in Ukraine; Economi disaster awaiting Ukraine. Video manipulation makes sure you truly can’t believe...
Fake: Ukrainian Rock Star Calls for Destruction of Current Rule in Ukraine
Ukrainian rock star and activist Svyatoslav Vakarchuk calls for the destruction of Ukraine’s current government announced Russia’s REN TV, the RBK agency, Vechernaya Moskva,...
Fake: Economic Disaster Awaiting Ukraine
On June 18 several pro-Kremlin media circulated the distorted claims of Ukrainian MP Vadim Rabinovich who predicts that Ukraine’s economy is heading for hard...
CONIFA alternative World Cup boosts Russia-backed separatism
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
In the World Football Cup that you probably haven’t heard of, which took place in London earlier this month,...
StopFake #189 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukraine does not want to claim its POWs from Occupied Territories; Ukrainian soldiers wearing Russian uniforms spotted in Donbas; UN condemns persecution of...
Fake: Ukraine Does Not Want to Claim its POW’s from Occupied Territories
Kyiv is not interested in freeing Ukrainian citizens who were taken prisoner by the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics (DPR, LPR). This claim...