Source type Fact check / debunking

Fake: Ukraine Covered Up ‘Assassination Attempt on US President’

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.

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Fact Check: BBC-branded video on Ukraine’s first lady seeking asylum is a fake report

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.

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Fake: Prince Harry Met with a Boy Injured in a Fire, Set by a Drunk Mother – Ukraine Tried to Pass Him Off as a War Victim

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.

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Fake: Ukrainian POW Forced to Sign Posthumous Organ Donation Consent by Commander

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.

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Fact Check: NATO troops in Estonia for 2025 Independence Day, not military escalation

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.

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Fake: Russian Forces Attacked Restaurant with NATO Troops in Kryvyi Rih

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.

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Fake: Ukraine Seeks to Buy Uranium from Niger to Develop Nuclear Weapons

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.

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