Fake: Ukrainian Ombudsman Calls on Sex Workers Abroad to Promote Pro-Ukrainian Ideas Among Clients
This video, like Kateryna Levchenko's quote, is fabricated by propagandists.
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Pic of New York Post headline calling European women leaders an expletive is fake | Snopes.com
Fake.
Context: The image was a misleadingly edited screenshot of an article that ran in the New York Post. The real headline of that article was, "Meet the tough women leaders taking on Vladimir Putin."
Fact Check: NATO troops in Estonia for 2025 Independence Day, not military escalation
A video of NATO troops and armoured vehicles in Estonia in February is not evidence of a recent military escalation with Russia, as has been suggested online.
VERDICT: Miscaptioned. The video shows NATO troops in Tallinn on February 24, 2025, for Estonia's Independence Day, according to NATO and British officials. Photos posted online in 2024 suggest the three armoured vehicles in the video were in Estonia long before February.
Fake: Zelenskyy Buys Controlling Interest in Northam Platinum Ltd – South Africa’s Largest Platinum Mining Company
This claim is false and has been officially denied by company representatives.
Fake: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Proposed to Resettle Gaza Residents to Ukraine and Syria
The statement about the proposal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resettle the population of Gaza to Ukraine and Syria is a fake.
Fake: Russian Forces Attacked Restaurant with NATO Troops in Kryvyi Rih
On 4 April 2025, Russian forces launched a ballistic missile attack on a residential area in Kryvyi Rih. The missile, equipped with a cluster warhead, landed near a children's playground, causing heavy civilian casualties. Twenty people were killed, nine of them children. Video footage from the restaurant, which was also damaged in the strike, clearly shows that no military personnel were present at the time of the attack.
Fake: Ukraine Seeks to Buy Uranium from Niger to Develop Nuclear Weapons
This claim, made by propagandists citing African media, is false - mainly because Defence Minister Rustem Umerov did not visit Niger in November 2023. Moreover, by the end of 2024, the French company Orano had lost control of uranium mining in Niger, and the country's main uranium buyers are now Russia and China.
Fake: Ukrainian Soldier Admits that Ukrainian Forces ‘Killed Children in Sudzha’
The claim circulating on Russian platforms that a Ukrainian soldier allegedly confessed to killing a child near Sudzha is either fake or at least unverified. The message was posted on a Facebook account that, according to available data, previously belonged to Ukrainian soldier Artur Yakovitskyi. His family has reported him missing - according to open sources, he disappeared near the settlement of Sudzha on 28 February 2025. On 28 March, a suspicious post appeared on his Facebook page, allegedly containing a confession to the murder. On 1 April, a screenshot of this post began actively circulating on pro-Russian Telegram channels. The image of the "murdered teenager" attached to the post was likely generated by artificial intelligence - this is supported by the analysis results of several AI detection tools.
Fake: BBC Labels Valerii Zaluzhnyi ‘Next President of Ukraine’
The claim that BBC News labelled a photo of Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, as the "next president of Ukraine" is unfounded and constitutes disinformation. The screenshot, purportedly taken from a BBC News broadcast, has been faked.
Fake front page Ukraine story linked to Russian disinformation | AAP
WHAT WAS CLAIMED: A UK regional newspaper says 70,000 Ukrainian Soldiers died in Kursk.
OUR VERDICT: False. The newspaper front page is fake.