Fake: Default by Ukraine’s Two Largest Banks Is Inevitable
On July 10, Russian, Ukrainian, and separatist media falsely reported about the impending defaults of Ukraine’s two largest banks – Privatbank and Oshchadbank.
RIA Novosti,...
Russian Media Falsely Cite New York Times
Several Russian and separatist media distorted a New York Times article and reported that the newspaper had written about “the extermination of ethnic Russians...
Fake: Use of “Russia” and “Rus” to Be Punished by Imprisonment in Ukraine
On July 7, Russian media reported that Ukrainian Parliament member Oksana Korchynska registered the bill №2276а that supposedly proposes to punish the use of...
ABC7Chicago: Durbin letter to Ukrainian’s prime minister – fake
Somebody is trying to pull one over on the Russians and the Ukrainians, and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has been put in the middle...
Fake: U.S. to Pay Saakashvili’s Salary
After a meeting between Odesa Governor Mikheil Saakashvili and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, Russian media distorted a Saakashvili post on Facebook.
The original...
Fake: Russian Flags Mistakenly Flown in Kyiv
On July 7, Ukrainian and Russian media mistakenly reported that Russian flags were hung instead of Bulgarian ones along Kyiv’s Lavrska Street the day...
Fake: Russia Not Recognized as “Aggressor State” in UN Report
On July 5, the Russian news site Ukraina.ru falsely reported that Russia had not been called an “aggressor state” in relation to Ukraine in...
Fake: Ukraine Placed on Map of Modern Nazism
Russian and Ukrainian media reported that Ukraine was placed on a map of “modern Nazism” in Europe. This information was published by Korrespondent, Vesti,...
Fake: Nationalists Swear Allegiance to Hitler in Kherson
On June 30, the city of Kherson celebrated the 74th anniversary of the Declaration of Ukrainian Independence. At a small event in the city’s...
BBC: Russian viewers misled about sentiment in Europe
Russian state TV has recently been trying to create the impression that the separatists in east Ukraine enjoy widespread sympathy in major European capitals....