Russian media claim Poland will build wall to keep out Ukrainian migrants
Scores of Russian media (Ukraina.ru, Delovaya gazeta Vzglyad, InformBuro, Kremlin Press) declared last week that Poland’s Interior Ministry has decided to fortify its eastern...
Fake: China rejects grain imports from Ukraine
Russia’s agency RT announced that China has rejected imports of Ukrainian soy, corn and barley because pests and nematodes were found in the shipments....
StopFakeNews #97 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. Among the disinformation debunked this are two fakes concerning Ukraine’s future, an imminent economic collapse...
Fake: Finance Ministry: Ukraine faces economic collapse without IMF bailout
Without an IMF bailout Ukraine’s economy is headed for a total collapse, declared Russia’s official news site Vesti last week.
“The IMF has yet again...
Fake: Nuclear energy collapse in Ukraine
Russian media are very fond of predicting a second Chornobyl like disaster in Ukraine. The reason for this latest prediction published by the Sputnik...
Russia’s Vesti accuses Ukrainian military of shelling OSCE
On August 21 Russia’s official news site Vesti published a story claiming that Ukrainian military had fired on OSCE monitors who were carrying out...
StopFakeNews #96 with Euan MacDonald
The latest edition of StopFake News with Kyiv Post editor Euan MacDonald. Among the fakes debunked this week are Russian media distortions of Ukrainian...
Russian media distort Ukrainian poll results on eve of Independence Day
Distortion and manipulation of Ukrainian poll results is a favorite topic of Russian media. On the eve the country’s 25th independence anniversary scores of...
Fake: Western Ukrainians don’t know Ukrainian
Russia’s federal news agency RIAFAN published a story claiming that residents of western Ukraine don’t know the Ukrainian language. According to RIAFA official Ukrainian...
Fake: Shipbuilding disappears in Ukraine
Russian publication Ukraina.ru published a story this week claiming that shipbuilding as an industry had all but disappeared in Ukraine.
The publication’s source for this...