Fake: Volodymyr Zelensky Adressed Ukrainians on Easter in English Only | StopFake
The fragment of the greeting that is being shared online was created specifically for a foreign audience. The president congratulated Ukrainians in state language.
Category Disinformation
Read MoreFake: Volodymyr Zelensky Adressed Ukrainians on Easter in English Only | StopFake
Fake: Ukrainians Arrested in Israel for Planning Terror Attack in Jerusalem | StopFake
The Israeli police have not reported the arrest of Ukrainians for preparing a terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Nor has the Times of Israel, the multilingual online Israeli newspaper quoted by the propagandists, published any video containing such information.
Fact Check: BBC-branded video on Ukraine’s first lady seeking asylum is a fake report
A video assembled to look like a BBC report about Ukraine's first lady seeking political asylum has been shared by social media users but is a fake, a spokesperson for the outlet has said.
The video mimics the British broadcaster's formatting for visual reports on social media, with multiple uses of its logo, red and white branding, and familiar typeface.
Fake: Prince Harry Met with a Boy Injured in a Fire, Set by a Drunk Mother – Ukraine Tried to Pass Him Off as a War Victim
BBC News did not release such a story. The boy in the photo is named Roman Oleksiv - he received burns as a result of a Russian missile strike on Vinnytsia in 2022.
Fake: Ukrainian POW Forced to Sign Posthumous Organ Donation Consent by Commander
The document in the photo is a consent form for legal posthumous organ donation in the province of Ontario, Canada. Only Canadian citizens or those who have permanent residence, as well as state health insurance, can apply for donation. Most likely, the propagandists simply downloaded the form from the Internet.
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.
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: 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.