Fake: Shevchenko Statue Demolished in Zaporizhzhia Region
On February 6, Ukrainian and Russian media actively spread the news that a monument to Ukraine’s national poet Taras Shevchenko was demolished in Tokmak,...
Fake: Ukrainian Train Lost in Kazakhstan
On February 1 the Russian site Lenta.ru, followed by various Ukrainian and Russian publications reported that a Ukrainian train headed for China and traveling...
Fake: Zaporizhzhia City Council Rejects Ukrainian Language
Zaporizhzhia city government has opted to abandon using Ukrainian on its official internet page, writes the website Holos Pravdy. As practically all local media...
US Ambassador on Ukraine’s Information Policy: Don’t Follow Russia’s Example
Ukraina.ru published a story claiming that US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt “criticized Ukraine’s policy in the information war” and warned the Ukrainian government not to...
Fake: Azov Battalion continues to threaten the Netherlands
Another sinister video has appeared on a YouTube channel which purports to be the work of Ukraine’s controversial Azov Battalion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ebnysVmhDc
Last month a video appeared...
StopFakeNews #69 with Irena Chalupa
This week, Irena Chalupa, journalist and Fulbright scholar hosts StopFake News. Among this week’s fakes: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Lies about Russia’s Budapest...
Fake: the Netherlands Accuse Ukraine of criminality in the MH17 Investigation
Russian media have reported that the Netherlands accused Ukraine of criminality during the investigation of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 which crashed over eastern...
Fake: EU Countries Massively Denying Visas to Ukrainians
The newspaper Vesti has published a story with this misleading headline: “Ukrainians in mass rush for visas: such hopelessness not seen even in the...
Russia Media Scaring Moldova with Fake Restitution
Pro-Russian media in Moldova are spreading news of the imminent restitution of historical land and property held by Ukrainian citizens to Poland and similarly...
Russian Media Calls Mentally Unstable German Citizen “Refugee”
Russia’s Channel Five television channel published a story entitled “Refugee pushes 20 year old girl under a train in Berlin”. The man who allegedly...