Fake: Ukrainian Cultural Treasures Surface on London Auction Blocks | StopFake
The narrative is riddled with distortions and falsehoods: none of the cited artifacts belong to the Ukrainian state.
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Fake: Russian Army Never Attacks Churches or Cultural Sites
UNESCO and UN specialists have recorded at least 270 Russian attacks on Ukrainian cultural sites, 116 of those were religious buildings.
DISINFO: The territories of today’s southeast Ukraine are historically and ethnically Russian lands
Ukraine is a well-defined nation-state with a long history and its own literature and identity, despite foreign rule for long periods of time. Ukrainians and Russians belong to the same ethnolinguistic group - the Slavs - but that alone does not preclude Ukraine's distinctness as nation.
DISINFO: Ukraine is definitely Russia
Ukrainian and Russian are two distinct people, despite multiple attempts of the Kremlin to deny it. Ukraine is a well-defined nation-state with a long history and its literature and identity, despite foreign rule for long periods. Ukrainians and Russians belong to the Slavs ethnolinguistic group, but they are not a single nation. The "all-Russian big nation" is an imperial Russian and Russian revanchist ideology that is a favoured pro-Kremlin narrative aimed at weakening the national identity of Ukrainians, as well as undermining the state sovereignty.
DISINFO: Kyiv is a Russian city
Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine and was earlier the largest city of the medieval state of Kyivan Rus' also named Ruthenia. The heritage of the Kyivan Rus' is claimed by the Kremlin for political reasons but the history of the Russian state is different and more complex than the official narrative.
DISINFO: Kyiv and Odesa are historically Russian cities
Ukraine's history dates back to the times of early Slavic tribes and principalities in the 9th to 13th centuries in and around Kyiv. Communist Russia took control of Ukraine from 1919 to 1920 and established a Bolshevik regime there. Moscow performed aggressive anti-Ukrainian policies, exterminating the population during famines.
Present-day Ukraine has been on the world map since 1991 when the Soviet Union disintegrated.
How Putin runs disinformation campaign against Zelensky – Report
In a report by the Washington Post, Kremlin documents expose Putin's administration using Russian political strategists to push a disinformation campaign against Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Russian Nationalist Channels Fabricate YouTube Data to Claim Ukrainians Don’t Listen to Ukrainian Musicians
"It's just that YouTube Music published the TOP artists in Ukraine. Not a single performer in Ukrainian."
That is false.
Musicians singing in Ukrainian dominated all of YouTube's weekly charts of top artists in Ukraine in 2023 as shown in YouTube's own data.
FALSE: Verkhovna Rada has adopted a law that will make the English language the main language in Ukraine
This is not true. Doctors did not mention the figure of 30,000 deaths and injuries per month. This information was voiced by Yurii Lutsenko. According to estimates by researchers from the "Book of Memory of the Fallen for Ukraine," Ukraine's losses amount to over 30,000 deaths and about 100,000 wounded in 2022-2023.
Russia has attacked hundreds of churches in Ukraine
Russia often claims that it protects traditional values and Orthodox Christianity, while destroying, damaging, or looting hundreds of churches in Ukraine.