Fake: Russian Flags Mistakenly Flown in Kyiv
On July 7, Ukrainian and Russian media mistakenly reported that Russian flags were hung instead of Bulgarian ones along Kyiv’s Lavrska Street the day...
Fake: Russia Not Recognized as “Aggressor State” in UN Report
On July 5, the Russian news site Ukraina.ru falsely reported that Russia had not been called an “aggressor state” in relation to Ukraine in...
Fake: Ukraine Placed on Map of Modern Nazism
Russian and Ukrainian media reported that Ukraine was placed on a map of “modern Nazism” in Europe. This information was published by Korrespondent, Vesti,...
Fake: Nationalists Swear Allegiance to Hitler in Kherson
On June 30, the city of Kherson celebrated the 74th anniversary of the Declaration of Ukrainian Independence. At a small event in the city’s...
BBC: Russian viewers misled about sentiment in Europe
Russian state TV has recently been trying to create the impression that the separatists in east Ukraine enjoy widespread sympathy in major European capitals....
Fake: European IP Registry Recognizes DPR Independence
On July 2, Russian media (such as topwar.ru, Pravda.ru) and Ukrainian media (ain.ua, apostrophe.com.ua, korrespondent.net) falsely reported that the European IP-address registry recognized the independence...
Russia 24 Falsely Reports on Poroshenko’s Proposed Amendments to Constitution
The Russian television network Russia 24 falsely reported about new powers it said would be conferred upon the president of Ukraine after the adoption...
Fake: Ukraine Halts Electrical Power to Crimea
On June 30, the Russian Ministry of Energy misleadingly reported on its website that Ukraine was stopping the supply of electricity to Crimea: “On...
Russia 1 Wrongly Reports of Energy Ministry Appointment
On June 30 the site Vesti.ru (Russia 1 TV channel) incorrectly reported that Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko appointed 24-year-old Dmitry Vovk as Ukraine’s Minister of...
Russian Media Invent “Union of Zakarpattia and Lviv Regions”
The Russian newspaper Vzglyad has published an article entitled “Zakarpattia May Follow Crimea and Donbas” that falsely claims that the Ukrainian regions of Zakarpattya...