Fake: Yatsenyuk Sides with Right Sector in Zakarpattia Oblast Conflict
On July 14, Russian and separatists’ sites (Novorossia, Regnum, RiaFAN, and REN-TV, among others) distorted comments made by Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk about...
Fake: Freelance Journalist Shot Dead in Kyiv
On July 4, Russian and Ukrainian websites, citing a Facebook post by former Ukrainian anchorman Yuriy Kot (who lives now in Russia), falsely reported...
Fake: Ukraine’s General Staff Extends Terms of Service for Conscripts
Russian and Ukrainian falsely reported that the General Staff of Ukraine had extended the term of service for current conscripts until October 31 2015,...
Russian Media Distort American Magazine Article
Russian media services, including Russia Today, Russkaya Vesna, Nabat, MonaVista and Russkiy Puls, published translated extracts from an article from the American magazine The...
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...