Fake: About 500 Ukrainian security officers block Kiev Street
On March 17, the Russian news agency TASS misleadingly reported that “about 500 participants of military operations in the southeast of Ukraine blocked Khreschatyk...
Retired American General Allegedly Calls for “Killing Russians”
Russian mass media has either misinterpreted or misrepresented comments made by retired U.S. Major General Robert Scales. The controversy revolves around a comment he...
Fake: Kyiv Administration Plans to Demolish Monument to Soviet Military Commander
On March 15, several Russian news sources, including the site of the Federal News Agency, wrongly reported that the Kyiv Administration is planning to...
Voice of America Misrepresents Russian Don Cossacks as Ukrainian “Rebels” Battling Kyiv
On March 12, the website for Voice of America (VOA) posted a video item entitled “In Eastern Ukraine, Civilian Deaths Push Men to Join...
Fake: Viktor Yushchenko to fight in Donbas
On March 16, the internet resource ukr.media published a sham report about Ukraine’s former president, Viktor Yushchenko, with the headline “Yushchenko is sent to...
Fake: Carpatho-Rusyns Region Demands Autonomy
On March 14, the Russian news agency TASS incorrectly reported that the Ukrainian region of Carpatho-Rusyns was demanding total autonomy. TASS cites Petro Hetsko...
Deceptive Headline by Zvezda: “Ukrainian Battalion Commander Confessed on Ukrainian TV about How He...
On March 12, the television channel Zvezda published an article under the misleading title, “The Commander of the Battalion Dnipro-1 Confessed on Ukrainian TV...
Fake: Brzezinski Accuses U.S. Intelligence Services of Nemtsov’s murder
Since early March, the site Politikus.ru has posted an article by Canadian journalist Ardzhil Turner under headline “The USA and Other Organizers of Anti-Russian...
Fake: Lviv Officer Proposes Annulling the Order for Courage
On March 13, the website for the Russian Ministry of Defense’s television channel Zvezda incorrectly reported that World War II veterans living in Lviv...
Fake: National Geographic Magazine Recognizes Crimea and Parts of Donbas as Russian Territories
In February, the Russian site “Antimaidan” posted an article entitled “National Geographic: Crimea is Russia, and Novorossia is not Ukraine.” The article was based...