Fake: Ukraine’s Military Command Announces Punitive Donbas Campaign and Crimea Offensive
Russian media launched a series of stories this week claiming that Ukraine’s military command announced a punitive campaign aimed at cleaning up Russian occupied Donbas and an offensive against Crimea.
Fake: European Gas Costs Ukraine Four Times More than Russian Gas
After the Stockholm Arbitration Court ordered Russia’s Gazprom gas company to pay more than $2.5 billion to Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz for having underused the Ukrainian transit system to deliver gas to…
Fake: Ukraine Buys Locomotives from a Failing American Corporation
Russian propagandist site Ukraina.ru ran a story last week claiming that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was saving a sinking American company, General Electric (GE) by purchasing the company’s locomotives.
StopFakeNews #173 with Peter Shmigel
Fake: Ukraine training terrorists for European and Middle East operations; Ukraine readies army and nationalists for war; The student strike that never was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNSkZgdjD1w
Fake: Ukraine Readies Army and Nationalists for War
The Kremlin’s lead propagandist Dimitri Kiselyov, whom the BBC dubbed Russia’s chief spin doctor who specializes in portraying Ukraine as a country of fascists, often devotes portions of his weekly Vesti Nedeli to heap all manner of calumny on Ukraine and its government.
Fake: Ukraine Training Terrorists for European and Middle East Operations
At the end of February Russian television channel Tsargrad published two articles claiming that Ukraine was training terrorists for operations in Europe and the Middle East.
The Student Strike that Wasn’t
Russian television channel REN TV presented a recent strike called by the faculty of Ukraine’s Medical University as a strike organized by the students.
StopFake #172 with Aaron Kennet
Fake: IMF and Kyiv fail to compromise on Ukraine aid; Ukrainian food prices nearly equal EU; Right Sector radicals attack peaceful Russians in Greece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWzm5sm_k5U
Fake: IMF and Kyiv Fail to Compromise on Ukraine Aid
In the aftermath of the International Monetary Fund’s visit to Ukraine last week, Russia’s official 24/7 English language channel RT declared that according to its own anonymous source in the Ukrainian Finance…
Fake: Ukrainian Food Prices Nearly Equal EU Levels
Pro-Kremlin site Ukraina.ru published an article this week claiming that food prices in Ukraine have grown to equal those of Europe.