Fake: Ukraine’s Health Ministry Allows Ukrainians to be sold for Organs
Ukraine’s Health Ministry plans to introduce a pilot kidney donor transplant program in 2018. The program has yet to be approved by parliament but it is already being hailed by Russian media as one that “will turn Ukraine into a supplier of organs from corpses”.
Fake: Ukrainians Visiting Crimea in Droves
According to the Russian Security Service (FSB) Crimea border control, well after the end of the vacation season Ukrainians are pouring into the annexed peninsula in droves.
StopFake #151 with Romeo Kokriatsky
Fake Ukrainian ISIS militants, Ukraine's new language law and fake Roshen chocolate expansion in Russia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_vGUwPN994&feature=youtu.be
Fake: President Poroshenko’s Confectionary Company Opening New Branches in Russia
Russian web sites, both reputable and marginal, regularly publish fake stories claiming that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s confectionery company Roshen is expanding its operations in the Russian Federation.
StopFake #150 with Paul Niland
The latest edition of StopFake News with Paul Niland. Fake record unemployment and labor migration, sky-high electricity costs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-i-Ziq2FjA
Fake: 45% of Ukrainians Work Abroad; Record High Unemployment
Russian Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda disseminated a fake story claiming that 45% of all Ukrainians work abroad and the country is struggling with record high unemployment.
Fake: Ukraine Has the Highest Electricity Prices in Europe
According to the Russian site Ukraina.ru, Ukraine has the highest electricity prices in Europe. Completely twisting a recent statement by Ukraine’s National Committee on Utility Regulation director Dmytro Vovk, Ukraina.ru simply replaced the word cheapest with most expensive.
Russian Disinformation a Means of Waging War against the US
A recent U.S. Helsinki Commission hearing entitled The Scourge of Disinformation concluded that disinformation is part of Russia’s hybrid war against the United States, an instrument with which the Kremlin meddles in America’s internal affairs.
StopFake #149 with Lada Roslycky
The latest edition of StopFake News with Lada Roslycky. Among the disinformation debunked this week: President Poroshenko admits returning Crimea to Ukraine is unrealistic; Putin shatters atheism in five…
Fake: Poland Wants to Deprive Ukraine of Gas Transit Revenues to Europe
Russia’s Fund of Strategic Culture (FSC) published a story at the end of August claiming that Poland is trying to deprive Ukraine of profits from the transit of gas through its territory.