Claim: A Fox News broadcast labeled Kyiv (the capital of Ukraine) a Russian city on Easter 2025. Rating: Mostly true. What’s True: The mistake appeared on LiveNOW from Fox, a news service delivered by Fox Television Stations. What’s False: However, while LiveNOW from Fox and Fox News are both part of the Fox Corporation, they are not interchangeable nor run by the same business within the corporation.

WHAT WAS CLAIMED: The BBC reported on a foiled attempt by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s wife Olena to flee Ukraine. OUR VERDICT: False. The news report is fake and is believed to be part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

The fragment of the greeting that is being shared online was created specifically for a foreign audience. The president congratulated Ukrainians in state language.

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.

Ukraine has no connection to the attempted assassination of US President Donald Trump by American citizen Ryan Root. The only link between Root and Ukraine is that he allegedly tried to buy a rocket launcher and a surface-to-air missile from someone he believed to be a Ukrainian arms dealer. However, it remains unclear whether this seller was in fact a Ukrainian citizen. Root also communicated with other illegal arms dealers in the US, as well as smugglers from Mexico who allegedly helped him escape the country after the attempt on Trump’s life. According to court documents, Root had no links to the Ukrainian government or military leadership.

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.

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.

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.

This video, like Kateryna Levchenko’s quote, is fabricated by propagandists.

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.”

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.

This claim is false and has been officially denied by company representatives.

The statement about the proposal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resettle the population of Gaza to Ukraine and Syria is a fake.

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.

This claim, made by propagandists citing African media, is false – mainly because Defence Minister Rustem Umerov did not visit Niger in November 2023. Moreover, by the end of 2024, the French company Orano had lost control of uranium mining in Niger, and the country’s main uranium buyers are now Russia and China.

The claim circulating on Russian platforms that a Ukrainian soldier allegedly confessed to killing a child near Sudzha is either fake or at least unverified. The message was posted on a Facebook account that, according to available data, previously belonged to Ukrainian soldier Artur Yakovitskyi. His family has reported him missing – according to open sources, he disappeared near the settlement of Sudzha on 28 February 2025. On 28 March, a suspicious post appeared on his Facebook page, allegedly containing a confession to the murder. On 1 April, a screenshot of this post began actively circulating on pro-Russian Telegram channels. The image of the “murdered teenager” attached to the post was likely generated by artificial intelligence – this is supported by the analysis results of several AI detection tools.

The claim that BBC News labelled a photo of Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UK, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, as the “next president of Ukraine” is unfounded and constitutes disinformation. The screenshot, purportedly taken from a BBC News broadcast, has been faked.

WHAT WAS CLAIMED: A UK regional newspaper says 70,000 Ukrainian Soldiers died in Kursk. OUR VERDICT: False. The newspaper front page is fake.

The propagandists fabricated a screenshot of a Ukrainian news article with a quote purporting to be from Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, saying that EU countries ‘owe’ Ukraine for security. In reality, Podolyak said that each country independently determines the amount of military assistance Ukraine can expect.

A post shared on Facebook claims to show a Charlie Hebdo magazine cover of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Verdict: False There is no evidence that this image was created by the magazine. It is fake.