Fake: Ukrainian Forces Destroy Aidar Checkpoint
Russian and separatist media falsely reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had destroyed an Aidar Battalion checkpoint near the town of Opytne in Donetsk...
Russian Media Distort Latvian President’s Statement on Minsk Agreement
Ukraina.ru recently published a misleading article claiming that the president of Latvia, Raimonds Vējonis, had complained that Ukraine was not meeting the terms of...
Video Fake: Explosion at Uranium Plant in Zhovti Vody
On September 3, reports appeared that wrongly claimed that smoke was covering Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, with social networkers reporting that the source was an...
Fake: Obama Asks Poroshenko for Invitation to Crimea
A little-known blog, Optimist, falsely claimed that U.S. President Barack Obama had asked Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to invite him to spend a vacation...
Fake: Odesa May Withdraw from Ukraine
Russian television channels Zvezda and REN-TV falsely reported that Odesa Governor Mihail Saakashvili had predicted the secession of Odesa from Ukraine. He allegedly said:...
Fake: Memorial Plaques to Soviet Soldiers Destroyed in Kharkiv
In late August Russian media falsely reported that unknown persons had destroyed memorial plaques commemorating Soviet soldiers in Kharkiv.
The news was accompanied by an...
Photo Fake: Donetsk Fighters Destroy American Hummer
On August 30-31, media organizations falsely reported that Donetsk fighters had destroyed an American Hummer with American and Ukrainian soldiers inside of it. The...
Russian and Separatist Media Continue Citing Anonymous Blogs as Official Media
Large Russian and separatist media web-sites continue the deceptive practice of presenting anonymous blogs on free hosting services as “publications of well-known mass media”.
For...
Photo Fake: Shelling in Israel Presented as Donetsk
A photograph taken in Israel in 2014 was recently posted as a photo from Donbas taken in 2015.
The fake was first discovered by Israeli...
Media Misrepresent Fitch’s New Ukraine Rating
On August 27, Russian and Ukrainian media reported on a new rating by Fitch for Ukraine. But they presented only some of the ratings...