Fake: American Tanks Found in Donbas
The website for Zvezda, the television channel of the Russian Defense Ministry, incorrectly reported a news item entitled “American Military Machinery Fires at the...
Fake: Drunken Poroshenko Gives Soccer Ball to Legless Soldier
Several Russian media news sources, including Moskovskij Komsomolets and the Russian Defense Ministry’s channel Zvezda, mistakenly reported that the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko,...
Fake: Maidan Activist Looking for Work in Russia
Since March 27, some Russian and Ukrainian media have falsely reported that Maidan activist Olga Znachkova is now looking for work in Russia. As...
Russian Mass Media Distort Comments by Kyiv Patriarch
On March 25, the Russian state television channel Russia-1, in its news program Vesti, falsely reported that the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church...
Fake: Obama Bans Balalaikas in the U.S. till 2020
Beginning on March 22, a number of Russian media falsely reported that U.S. President Barack Obama prolonged a decree that bans balalaikas in the...
“Mass Riots” In Odessa Turn Out To Be Staged
Several Russian media misleadingly published reports on March 21 about "Odessa against repression" protesters that blocked a street in Odessa and turned over a...
Fake: Journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk Suggests Depriving Ukrainians of Voting Rights
On March 14, the Russian channel Lifenews published false information about Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk. Lifenews incorrectly reported that she had written an email...
Fake: Poroshenko Threatens to Arrest Protesting Airport Staff
On March 19, the Russian news program Vesti (broadcast on state-controlled Russia 24) incorrectly reported that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko threatened to arrest protesting staff...
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...