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Claims that the Gironde has been renamed are false. The story originated as a comedy video on TikTok. A little-noticed petition later appeared based on it, and Russian outlets passed the joke off first as a genuine grassroots initiative and then as a decision already taken by the authorities.

The primary reason Ukrainians have been forced to leave the country, including for Slovakia, is the war Russia unleashed against Ukraine — the relentless missile strikes on critical infrastructure, the…

No such incident occurred. Neither NATO nor Estonia reported any airspace violation on August 6, any drone shootdown, or any damage to aircraft.

The Die Zeit article being cited contains no claim that Ukraine is responsible for launching drones at Leipzig Airport.

The story was invented by the Foundation to Battle Injustice, a propaganda organization created by Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The image circulating online was generated using artificial intelligence. No such repatriation of bodies took place on August 6, as the Ministry of Internal Affairs has confirmed.

Young audiences increasingly get their news from social media, where the line between professional journalism and other content is becoming less clear.

This report compiles the results of monitoring conducted between April 1 and June 30, 2026, as part of the ATAFIMI project, which aims to identify and analyze incidents of information manipulation and interference (FIMI) originating from Russia in various countries and languages.

In reality, Palermo prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia spoke about drones "of the type used in the war in Ukraine," not about aircraft supplied to Ukraine, and stressed that these were merely "indications" of interest rather than documented transactions.

Russian propaganda outlets are circulating claims that the scale of the wildfires in France and Spain was caused by EU sanctions against Russia.