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Last week scores of Russian media disseminated a statement by a Ukrainian member of parliament who claimed that Ukraine allegedly "lost half of its GDP because of Western sanctions against Russia.

Fake: Russian language woes in Ukraine; Ukraine leads post-Soviet states in anti-Semitism; HIV and AIDS from Donbas sweeping across Ukraine. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3IniFL3eJc0&feature=youtu.be

StopFake became a partner of Learn to Discern – Schools (L2D-s) project, a first-of-its-kind media and information literacy initiative. The project was launched on February 2 in Kyiv.

Russian publications such as RIA Novosti, Ukraina.ru, Strana.ua, Moskovskyi Komsomolets and others disseminated a story claiming that over the past year Ukraine has become the most anti-Semitic country in the post-Soviet space.

Russian propagandist site Ukraina.ru published an article this week declaring that the Russian language was in the worst possible situation ever in Ukraine.

Fakes: Ukrainian military shoot passenger bus in Donbas; Ukraine admits Russian gas imports are profitable; no Russian schools left in Kyiv! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrOa6y16CGk

Russian propagandist site Ukraina.ru declared this week that Ukraine has recognized the commercial profitability of Russian gas imports.

Scores of Russian media reported this week that the Ukrainian military fired on a passenger bus in Donbas. The alleged shooting, they report, took place in the gray zone, the swathe of neutral territory between the Ukrainian army and the Russian backed separatists.

Scores of Russian and Ukrainian media featured stories last month claiming the war in the eastern Ukrainian Donbas region, was causing a huge spike in AIDS.

Fakes: Crimean Tatars to support Putin in Russia’s March presidential election; Kyiv residents want Russian social media back; Ukrainian train arrives in Russia carrying grenades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvh72RoJDA&t=1s