StopFakeNews #121 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. This week’s fakes claims that Russia is the top importer of Ukrainian weapons, Ukraine’s capital to raise electricity prices to cover costs of hosting…
Fake: Russia – Top Importer of Ukrainian Arms
Ukrainian and Russian media disseminated a story this week claiming that despite the 2014 Ukrainian ban on doing business with the Russian Federation, Russia is the largest importer of weapons from Ukraine.
Fake: Ukrainian Capital Raises Electricity Costs to Cover Eurovision
Russian media are gleefully disseminating a fake story originally featured by the Ukrainian publication Vesti claiming that residents of Kyiv will be paying more for electricity in order to finance the Eurovision 2017 song contest that the Ukrainian capital is hosting in May.
Fake: Ukraine Has No Heat, Organizes Public Warming Centers
A favorite Russian disinformation topic this winter has been the frigid cold enveloping Ukraine and the population’s alleged huge energy consumption in order to keep warm amid a failing war-torn economy.
StopFakeNews #120 with Jim Kovpak
The latest edition of StopFake News with Jim Kovpak. This week’s fakes include Russian claims that the US and Canada are ending military cooperation with Ukraine; Russia’s man in the UN says no one in the…
Fake: 700 Tanks in Occupied Eastern Ukraine are Spoils of War
Ask Kyiv where the 700 tanks came from, Russia does not send tanks to the Donbas, declared Russian Presidential spokesman Dimitry Peskov, responding to reports that some 700 tanks are currently on the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.
Fake: US and Canada End Military Cooperation with Ukraine
Russia’s Defense Ministry television station Zvezda aired a story this week claiming that the US and Canada were ending their military cooperation with Ukraine.
Fake: UN Security Council Refuses to Support Ukraine
Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin told RT that Ukraine received no support from UN Security Council members during a meeting devoted to the escalated fighting in eastern Ukraine in the region of Avdiivka.
StopFakeNews #119 with Christi Anne Hofland
The latest edition of StopFake News with Christi Anne Hofland. This week’s fakes include claims that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is advocating lifting Russia sanctions; a new “Caliphate” will be built…
Fake: Kyiv to Cull Stray Dogs for Eurovision Song Contest
At the end of January the Eurovision Song Contest’s official German language site published a story claiming that Kyiv authorities were planning a massive culling of stray dogs in the Ukrainian capital before the May 2017 song contest.