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Here’s How Much Aid the United States Has Sent Ukraine

Eleven charts illustrate the extraordinary level of support the United States has provided Ukraine in recent years - though there has been no new U.S. aid legislation since 2024, and combined European aid tops U.S. contributions.

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Fact Check: Viral CCTV Footage Claiming An Attack On Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Residence Is AI-Generated

Russia recently accused Ukraine of carrying out a drone attack on President Vladimir Putin's residence. In connection with this, CCTV footage is circulating on social media, showing drones dropping bombs on a building. Some users are sharing the footage and claiming that it is an attack on Russian President Putin's residence.

Vishvas News investigated and found that the CCTV footage circulating with the claim that Putin's residence was attacked is AI-generated, not real.

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Did former Trump adviser once speak of ‘strange swap arrangement’ involving Venezuela and Ukraine?

The quote that circulated online was correctly attributed to Hill. At the time of this writing, Snopes could not independently verify whether the U.S. had carried out the swap Hill said Russia wanted in 2019 or whether such a deal made the Trump administration's January 2026 capture of Maduro possible.

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FACT CHECK: Did Ukraine Really Try to Blow Up Putin’s Personal Residence?

A Kyiv Post fact check investigating Russian claims that Ukraine recently attempted to eliminate Russian President Vladimir Putin by launching drone swarms at his personal residence found little evidence that the attack overnight Sunday-Monday ever took place beyond the Kremlin's own claims.

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Images of Russian president at Indian religious sites are AI-generated

After Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded a trip to India in December 2025, AI-generated images were shared in posts claiming they showed him at religious sites with the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and firebrand Hindu monk Yogi Adityanath. There were no official reports of Putin travelling to the sites, nor were they listed on an itinerary shared by India's Ministry of External Affairs.

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Fact Check: Rob Reiner DID Say Publicly He Was Working On A Series About Putin And Trump’s Relationship

Did the late Rob Reiner publicly say he was developing a television series about Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump called "The Spy and the Asset"? Yes, that is true: Reiner announced the project in 2020 on the Mehdi Hasan Show on MSNBC. He again talked about it on the Dean Obeidallah Show on Sirius XMradio in 2021.

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PTI Fact Check: No, Russian President Putin did not write anything …

A social media post recently went online claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin had criticised the Narendra Modi government in a message written in the official visitors' book at Rajghat during his visit. However, the Press Trust of India's Fact Check Desk found the claim to be misleading in its investigation. In his original message, as verified by credible news reports and the Russian Foreign Ministry's official release, the Russian President praises Mahatma Gandhi and speaks of shared values between India and Russia. At no point did he mention or criticise the current Indian government.

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