Verdict: False The image shows leftover pet food in the Belgorod region, not dead Russian troops.

A video shared on Twitter claims to show a Russian soldier exploding after hitting a tank with an artillery shell. Verdict: Misleading The explosion is edited in. There is no evidence the soldier died during this.

Cluster munitions that the U.S. is sending to Ukraine are banned in more than 100 countries. The use of cluster bombs can be a war crime in some cases. Countries that haven’t ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions treaty, such as the United States, Russia and Ukraine, can use cluster bombs without violating international law. However, there are some cases where the use of cluster bombs by any country could violate international law and be considered a war crime. These include attacks that indiscriminately target civilians.

A video shared on Facebook claims 45,000 Ukrainian troops reached Melitopol, Ukraine. Verdict: False Ukraine’s offensive has not yet reached the city.

Claim: Joe Biden launched unarmed nuclear bombs as a “Russia threat.” Verdict: No evidence that test of US nuclear missile was done to threaten Russia. The Air Force described it as routine. News reports on the testing did not mention Russia.

The cross at issue in the viral video is neither a modern-era German Iron Cross nor the simple cross used as an indicator by the Ukrainian army. It is true that variants similar to the cross in the viral video had been used by the Nazis in World War II. This type of cross has a specific history in Ukraine, however, that predated its use in Nazi Germany. A guerrilla warfare campaign carried out by the Ukrainian National Army against the Red Army and other forces from 1919 to 1920 is known as the First Winter Campaign. […] A “steel cross,” as it is sometimes described in Ukraine, was the symbol of that Winter Campaign – the military award given for participation in these campaigns contained that equidistant cross. In 2019, a Ukrainian military unit that has been fighting in the Donbas region of Ukraine since 2014 – the 28th Mechanized Infantry Brigade – was renamed “Knights of the First Winter Campaign.” That Brigade’s insignia, approved by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, presently contains this same cross. […] While one could debate the merits of using a symbol that has since become complicated by its use in other contexts, there is no reason to interpret such cross’s use in Ukraine as a reference to Nazism.

No, the U.S. government did not accidentally send an extra $6 billion to Ukraine. This viral claim takes what actually happened completely out of context. The U.S. actually sent about $6 billion less than it intended in military equipment to Ukraine – not $6 billion more. That happened because the Pentagon overestimated the value of military equipment sent to the country, meaning it was worth about $6 billion less than originally estimated.

UNESCO and UN specialists have recorded at least 270 Russian attacks on Ukrainian cultural sites, 116 of those were religious buildings.

This tweet, as well as others, implied that the objects the women were carrying were lightweight movie props, perhaps meant to resemble heavy pieces of concrete. However, higher-quality video of the original footage shows that the materials carried by these women were not heavy stones or concrete, but rather a “light, polystyrene-like material” that had likely been used for the church’s insulation.

Russian social media claims that a Ukrainian court sentenced a woman to 10 years imprisonment for corresponding with a sister in Russia and posting a picture criticizing a Ukrainian nationalist leader, are propagandist fakes. The woman was in fact convicted for sending Ukrainian military locations to the invading Russian army.

A video shared on Twitter claims Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy said he did not know who blew up the Kerch Bridge. Verdict: False Zelenskyy was discussing Ukraine obtaining the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), not the attack on the Kerch Bridge.

The above photograph does not show Zelenskyy’s home. Using Google’s reverse-image search tool, we found the same photograph on a number of real estate websites showing luxury properties in France and Monaco. Given that the author of the original tweet pulled the photo from real estate profiles of a house in France, without providing any evidence of its ownership, we rate this photograph as “Miscaptioned.”

UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq neither encouraged to end any attacks on Moscow, nor spoke in their favor. The organization representative spoke against “any and all attacks on civilian facilities” and expressed the wish that they stop.

A photo shared on Facebook alleges German satirical magazine The Titanic depicted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with his pants down. Verdict: False The alleged cover cannot be found in an archive of Titanic Magazine’s recent covers and cannot be found on any of its verified social media accounts.

A viral video doesn’t show Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing. It shows a 2022 explosion on the Kerch Bridge, which connects Russia to Crimea.

The captain of the Dali cargo ship involved in Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse is not from Ukraine. All 22 members onboard the ship are Indian.

A spokesperson for Clear Channel told VERIFY a video showing a billboard with an ad that replaces ‘Stand with Ukraine’ text with ‘Stand with Israel’ is fake.

A video of White House Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre was manipulated with fake audio to make it sound like she said Ukraine, U.S. fought side-by-side in WWII.

A video of a massive fire circulated widely on social media in late April along with captions claiming it showed a strike by the Russian army on a NATO weapons convoy en route to Ukraine. It turns out, however, that this is an old video that wasn’t filmed anywhere near Ukraine.

Did Russia really capture a bunch of US missiles in Ukraine and give them to China? No, but posts featuring that bit of fake news have been garnering thousands of views on social media since May 13. Many of these posts feature a photo said to show these missiles in China. While the photo was indeed taken in China, it actually shows a non-operational replica of these missiles, according to military experts interviewed by our team.