Fake: Polish President Calls for Return of Ukrainian Lands to Poland
Pro-Russian media falsely reported that Polish President Andrzej Duda had called for Poles to be “ready to fight for former Polish lands.” The alleged...
Zvezda Falsely Cites Radio France Internationale for Sexual Harassment Report
On October 22, the Russia television network Zvezda posted a false report on its website claiming that “Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk accused the...
Nuland Wrongly Accused of Pressuring Ukrainian Government after Prosecutor General’s Comments
On October 20, the English-language, Russian news agency Sputnik published an article alleging that U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland had attempted to...
Fake: Merkel Says No Investment Coming to Ukraine
On October 19, the separatist news website Russkaya Vesna falsely reported that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had sharply criticized the Ukrainian government and predicted...
Fake: Ukrainian TV Forbidden from Showing Handshake between Putin and Poroshenko
On October 18, posting on Facebook, the former creative producer for the 112 Ukraine television network falsely claimed that Ukrainian television channels hadn’t shown...
Russian Embassy in Great Britain Uses Fake Photo of British Veterans
On October 9, the Russian Federation’s Embassy in Great Britain posted a fake photo on its official Twitter page of a group of British...
NTV Reports of “Insurgent” Children’s Text Book in Ukraine
On October 14, Defender of Ukraine Day, the Russian television channel NTV falsely reported that Ukrainians had allegedly started teaching their children with a...
Fake: Limp Bizkit to Perform in Donetsk and Luhansk
On October 8, the Russian newspaper Izvestiya falsely reported that the American musical group Limp Bizkit would give concerts in the war-torn eastern Ukrainian...
StopFakeNews #55 with Marta Dyczok
This week, associate professor at University of Western Ontario Marta Dyczok is the StopFakeNews guest anchor. Russia One falsely reported that Ukraine’s General Staff...
Photo Fake: Boy from Donbas Used to Protest Muslim Migrants in Sweden
A recent photo fake about a Donbas boy, presented as an orphan searching for his parents among the debris of a destroyed Ukrainian town,...