StopFake #154 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. Ukraine increases its own territory; a tanker tears a pier and Ukrainian Hungarian hostage to disinformation and electioneering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8X_rXif3A
The Surgeon Refused to operate on the Donbas woman with Too Much Fat and...
Scores of Russian and Ukrainian media featured a story last week about a Kyiv doctor who “refused to operate on a patient from Donbas” for political reasons.
Fake: Ukraine Increases Its Own Territory
Scores of Russian media reacted with condescension to Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service announcement about returning land near the border with Hungary to Ukrainian state control.
Fake: Ship Carrying American Coal for Ukraine Destroys Port Near Odesa
Scores of Russian media – Lenta.ru, Russian Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda, Vesti, Strana.ru and others, ran a story last week claiming that a tanker ship carrying American coal destroyed a pier in a port near Odesa, forcing the entire port to close for a year of repairs.
StopFake #153 with Irena Chalupa
The latest edition of StopFake News with Irena Chalupa. PACE Approves Resolution Abolishing Political Sanctions against Russia; Crimea Hosts International Ukrainian Diaspora Congress: Catalonia is not Crimea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrjsv86fmyU
Fake: Crimea Hosts International Ukrainian Diaspora Congress
Russian and Crimean media reported last week that an international congress of Ukrainian diaspora organizations was held on the Russian occupied Crimea peninsula.
Fake: PACE Approves Resolution Abolishing Political Sanctions against Russia
Last week Ukrainian media reported that the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly approved a resolution laying the groundwork for the abolition of political sanctions against Russia.
Fake: No Military Pressure on Crimeans to Support Russian Annexation
With the Catalonian independence referendum remaining in the headlines some in the media have taken to comparing Catalonia to Crimea, a part of Ukraine that Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
StopFake #152 with Irena Chalupa
The latest edition of StopFake News with Irena Chalupa. Among the disinformation debunked this week: Ukrainian arms flood into Poland, Ukraine to be become a black market for organ transplants, droves of…
Fake: Ukrainian Arms Flood into Poland
Polish-Ukrainian relations are a frequent target of disinformation generated not only by Russian but also by Polish media.