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 delayed its decision on the latest bailout tranche for…
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 agency is a press conference by Mykhailo Umanets, the former director of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
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 their mission mandate near the town of Novooleksandrivka in Luhansk oblast.
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 poll results on the eve of the country’s 25th anniversary…
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 Russian media (RIA Novosti, REN TV, Vzglyad…
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.
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.
StopFakeNews #95 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. Among this week’s fakes: claims that Ukrainian military bars OSCE monitors access to the war zone, accusations that Ukraine cut pension payments to IDPS…
Fake: Ukrainian politicians support Crimea sabotage
The publication Ukraina.ru manipulated the content of a Facebook post by Ukrainian MP Semen Semenchenko, in which he allegedly justifies subversion in Crimea and offers "to distribute weapons to the population of the country.
Fake: Ukraine stops pension payments to Donbas IDPs
The Russian website Ukraina.ru reported that according to Social Policy Minister Andriy Reva, Ukraine cut the pension payments for 300,000 Donbas retirees. Reva did not say that retirees’ pensions were cut off.