After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Belarus in June of aiding Russia’s drone attacks, posts shared a fabricated image purportedly showing Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko apprehended by Ukrainian forces. There are no official reports that Lukashenko has been detained and detection tools flagged the image as made with Google’s AI tools.

After Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they had struck US military targets in Bahrain in July 2026, social media posts recirculated an old video falsely claiming it showed a massive fire at a US base in Bahrain. The footage actually depicts a fire at a market in St. Petersburg, Russia, in December 2025.

Canada’s 2026 wildfire season already scorched an area the size of Belgium, and government critics online have blamed a supposed lack of water bombers, claiming money that could have bought new firefighting aircraft was instead spent as foreign aid for Ukraine. But experts told AFP the comments misconstrue Canada’s water-bomber deployment, which is mostly a provincial responsibility involving aircraft sharing between jurisdictions.

TRUE: A photograph authentically shows a mushroom cloud of smoke rising from a Russian warehouse after it was bombed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

Does a viral clip confirm that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave Monaco bombing suspect Anastasiia Berezovska a military award in 2022? No, that’s not true: The rumor was based on a doctored clip. The real footage of the award ceremony didn’t show people who looked like Berezovska.

Misleading: The video is old and does not depict a recent U.S. attack on facilities or sites belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Misbar’s team found that the original video was posted on social media in April 2025, claiming to show an ammunition depot explosion in Kirzhach, Russia’s Vladimir Oblast.

Do viral posts prove that Russia destroyed the Skyfall drone production facility in Ukraine visited by late Senator Lindsey Graham hours before his death? No, that’s not true: The posts don’t cite any sources. No credible media outlets reported that, and even Russia didn’t claim it hit that target.

Claim: A video is claimed to show Iran attacking secret American facilities in response to a US attack in Bandar Abbas. Fact: The video actually shows a massive fire at Pravoberezhnny Market in St Petersburg, Russia on 10 December 2025

Did a real report from Euronews state that Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s parents were detained for laundering $11 million? No, that’s not true: At the time of writing, Euronews had not published a story matching the claim. A Ukrainian governmental body dedicated to stopping the spread of disinformation has said the claim is false.

Finland’s Foreign Minister made no such statement and did not call for the war in Ukraine to “continue.” On the contrary, Elina Valtonen stressed that allies should maintain pressure on Russia and must not abandon the fight to defend Ukraine’s freedom.

This is false. The video circulating online merely imitates Le Point’s visual branding and is being used to push a longstanding Russian narrative about an alleged mass deployment of French nationals in the war against Russia.

A video of a large fire is circulating on social media with false claims it depicts recent disorder in Belfast. But the video actually shows the aftermath of a gas pipeline explosion in Russia that happened on 9 June. The footage does not show Belfast or the ongoing unrest there. It actually shows the aftermath of gas pipeline explosions in Russia.

Russian propaganda outlets and anonymous Telegram channels are claiming that China refused Ukraine a deferral on debt repayment amounting to $30.8 billion. […] Yet the information spread in these publications is fake, as indicated by numerous factors. […] No credible media outlet – Ukrainian, Chinese, or Western – has reported on a debt of $30.8 billion, a diplomatic approach by Zelensky to Beijing requesting a deferral, or a refusal by the Chinese side.

The EU imposed sanctions on Russian organizations and officials implicated in the abduction of Ukrainian children and their forced “re-education.”

The post is fake. Reviews of Truth Social and Trump’s Truth, a website that archives the president’s Truth Social feed every few minutes, found no trace of the post on or around May 12, 2026. For example, a search for “SLEEPY JOE was a RUSSIAN AGENT!” on Trump’s Truth returned no such post.

Fake: Podolyak Says Ukraine Is Ready to Defend Taiwan Instead of the U.S. The quote attributed to Podolyak is a fabrication. It originated on a satirical Telegram channel that explicitly identifies itself as a publisher of “fakes,” and the image accompanying the posts was lifted from an earlier interview on an unrelated topic.

A video purportedly showing three men of Indian origin washing clothes inside a fountain at a cultural heritage site in Moscow has gone viral on social media. In the clip, several bystanders can be seen recording and laughing at the men, while a voiceover claims that “Indian visitors” turned the famous Friendship of Peoples Fountain into a laundry spot. The caption accompanying the post further alleges that such behaviour is “completely normal in their country.” NewsMobile verified the claim and found that the viral video is AI-generated. The NM team investigated the viral claim and found no credible or mainstream media reports, either in India or Russia, carrying any such incident.

The Russian Ministry of Defense did not spare central Kyiv out of humanitarian concern. From the opening days of the full-scale invasion, Russian forces have carried out systematic missile and drone strikes against residential areas, hospitals, and civilian infrastructure across Kyiv, including its central districts. The ministry’s own statement undercuts its humanitarian framing further: it contains explicit threats against the civilian population – language that is irreconcilable with any credible claim of restraint. Russian Telegram channels and state media are amplifying a May 4, 2026, statement by Russia’s Ministry of Defense claiming that Moscow had previously “refrained, for humanitarian reasons,” from launching missile strikes on the center of the Ukrainian capital.

Conclusion: The claim is false. There is no credible evidence or statement which suggests CNN has apologized. Moreover, no journalist by the name of “Olesya Bezruchko” works for CNN and The Mirror has not posted any article as shown in the claim. Also no reliable source establishes that the woman in the video is a Ukrainian national or a journalist.

Does a video show a Russian submarine arriving in Havana, Cuba, in May 2026? No, that’s not true: The footage dates back to June 2024, when a nuclear-powered Russian submarine and three Russian warships arrived in Havana as part of a port visit coinciding with Russian naval exercises in the Caribbean. The clip resurfaced in social media posts falsely claiming it depicted such an event in May 2026.