The lie: Bombardment of Horlivka will cause an environmental disaster
August 11 famous Russian online mass media published a video in which the press secretary of Stirol Concern Pavlo Brykov announced that an explosion in this concern (situated in Horlivka, Donetsk Region) might…
Weekly newscast from StopFake team. Number 21 (dubbed)
StopFakeNews # 21. Alina has come back to us, and we talk about Russian mercenaries, the Red Cross, a barnstormer Maria Tsypko and so on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELuNC_hGes
Moscow lied that Red Cross had given consent to Russian “aid convoys” for Donbas
Russian media reported that International Committee of the Red Cross (the ICRC) had allegedly supported Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov’s proposition to deliver Russian “aid convoys” to Ukraine.
Weekly newscast from StopFake team. Number 20
StopFakeNews # 20. You will hear about a Ukrainian journalist and singer Bogdan Boutkevitch, who was misrepresented, about Churkin's speech at a UN meeting, as well as see how a news from a satirical website turned into a sensation.
Fake expert of European Union
Ukrainian portal “Golos.UA” quoted Wolfgang Grasse, “the expert of the EU” in their publications on political topics.
Fake: American customs officer apologized for Obama to the Russian tourist
Social networks, blogs and some news websites spread the information about the customs officer in the New York's JFK airport, who allegedly put in the passport of Russian tourists a note of apology for their president.
“Actress on tour” Tsypko called herself a Donetsk lawyer and told about shooting a...
Maria Tsypko, a famous supporter of Donetsk and Luhansk separatists, who appears regularly on Russian TV channels with the most extraordinary stories and plays every time a different role, testified “atrocities” of the Ukrainian army.
Fake: hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers deserted to Russia and asked for asylum there
On August 4, several Russian mass-media sources, including “Russia 24”, “RT”, “LifeNews”, “Izvestiya” and others, reported that after fighting with separatists near Kraznopartyzansk of Luhansk region…
Russian militants fighting in Donbas (photos)
While Russia denies its military involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Russian soldiers continue posting proofs of their presence in the Donbas in social networks and do not disdain to make photos near dead bodies.
Russian video montage: 1.5 mln Donbas residents should be killed, Ukrainian journalist said
July 31 Russian TV channel LifeNews showed a video fragment from the Ukrainian hromadske.tv web-channel. According to it, the Ukrainian journalist Bohdan Butkevych allegedly said: “The Donbas is not just a depressed region.