Fake: Kyiv Government Admits City Smog Caused by Low Grade Coal
The Ukrainian newspaper Vesti published a story this week claiming that the recent smog enveloping Ukraine’s capital Kyiv was by caused by the city’s...
Fake: Separatists Regain Control of Avdiivka
Russian Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda declared this week that the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic had retaken Avdiivka, a town in Donetsk oblast close...
StopFakeNews #117 with Nina Jankowicz
The latest edition of StopFake News with Nina Jankowicz. This week’s fakes include Ukraine‘s New Holiday – Day of the Avenger, Kyiv’s new language...
Fake: UN Gives Russia Right to Seize Ukraine in 2014
This week Russian media site Polit Online published a story claiming that the United Nations, responding to a request by former Ukrainian President Viktor...
Goebbels Techniques Inspire Russian Propaganda
Russian media are incensed that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’ diary will be published in a Ukrainian translation.
With monotonous predictability, the Kremlin claims Ukrainians...
Fake: Ukrainian Naval Ships Frozen
Ukrainian ships are frozen in ice, Russian media declared last week. The Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda, Sputnik, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Argumenty I Fakty all...
Fake: Ukraine‘s New Holiday – Day of the Avenger
Day of the Avenger – that’s what scores of Russian media called Ukraine’s Volunteer Day, a new March 14 holiday recently enacted by the...
Fake: New Language Law Will Make Ukrainian Exclusive
Russian media are claiming that Ukraine is poised to enact a new language law which will ban Russian and make Ukrainian the sole and...
StopFakeNews #116 with Benjamin Cohen
The latest edition of StopFake News with Ben Cohen. This week’s fakes include Russia media claims that Ukrainian MPs are either criminals or crazy,...
Fake: Volyn And Vinnytsia Could Secede From Ukraine
Regional autonomy and local separatism are favorite topics of the Russian disinformation machine. The latest example of this theme is a story disseminated by...