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Fake: Kyiv gives up Crimea. Hungarian Foreign Minister threatens Ukraine with NATO troops. Ukraine responsible for dangerous emissions in Crimea.

Ruslan Boshirov, one of the two suspects in the Skripal poisoning, has been identified as a GRU colonel by investigators from Bellingcat.

Kyiv can’t pay pensions to people in the Luhansk and Donetsk occupied territories because of lack of funds, declared Russian and separatist media this week.

“The people will be left without land” is one of Moscow’s favorite scare narratives about International Monetary Fund policies in Ukraine.

This week several Ukrainian and Russian sites disseminated fakes claiming that the Hungarian foreign minister threatened Ukraine with NATO troops.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s wife Marina allegedly said that true Ukrainian identity is found in the United States.

With a quick move, the camera zooms in on the map of Ukraine. One by one, pieces of Ukrainian territory get wolfed down by the EU member states, Hungary, Romania and Poland. “Kyiv’s eccentricity has already split the country”, the presenter explains intensively.

Bellingcat and its investigative partner The Insider – Russia have established conclusively the identity of one of the suspects in the poisoning of Sergey and Yulia Skripal, and in the homicide of British citizen Dawn Sturgess.

Scores of Russian media reported this week that a levee on Ukrainian territory separating lake Sivash from an acid waste accumulator facility belonging to the Crimean Titan chemical factory in the northern Crimean town of Armyansk, was partially destroyed.

Facebook is opening a “War Room” to protect elections from disinformation attempts on the social network. Scheduled to become operative on 24 September, the War Room will house about 20 Facebook staffers…