Latest fact checks & sources

The Ukrainian ambassador to Israel said that a plan is currently being developed to evacuate Ukrainians from Israel and from the Gaza Strip. The situation is quite complicated, but the embassy noted that they are making every effort to assist Ukrainian citizens and facilitate their speedy evacuation.

Claim: Russian President Vladimir Putin “warns ‘global terrorist’ Klaus Schwab his ‘days are numbered.'” Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t say this.

No, the BBC report that said Ukraine is selling weapons to Hamas is not real. The fake video is being promoted by pro-Russia social media accounts.

This “news” is spread only by Russian media and Telegram channels. A search for such information in the Israeli media and other sources yielded no results. Obviously, the “news” was invented by Russian propaganda to discredit Ukrainians in the context of the war in Israel.

The devastation from the Russia-Ukraine war has been well documented. There are hundreds of legitimate photos and videos depicting war casualties and decimated communities. Some photos and videos have been documented by news media; other footage has been taken by Ukrainian civilians whose lives were upended by Russia’s invasion. We rate the claim that there is “zero footage of the Ukraine war” Pants on Fire!

Social media posts are claiming Russia didn’t destroy a Ukrainian Challenger 2 tank. Verdict: False The video does show a Ukrainian Challenger 2 tank, according to multiple media outlets and independent analysts. The United Kingdom Defense Secretary confirmed the Challenger 2 tank was destroyed.

This statement is not true. The Warsaw police identified 13 people who engaged in the conflict shown in the video. None of them were Ukrainian citizens.

The article says nothing about any dissatisfaction with the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command and ignoring the Pentagon’s recommendations. It says that Ukraine is using its strategy to secure those parts of the front where Russia can advance.

The propagandist claim that Ukrainian refugees are the source of the bacterial infection is completely unfounded. It is yet unknown what exactly became the source of the infection in Rzeszów. Moreover, the World Health Organization reports that no cases of direct transmission of infection from person to person have been registered to date. Poland’s Internal Security Agency is investigating whether this legionellosis outbreak could have been a sabotage.

Euronews did not publish a video on its social media that Ukrainian refugees allegedly beat a Slovenian man due to a mistake with the flag. The screenshot of the video circulating online was most likely fabricated. Its authors deliberately used the logo of a well-known European media and its design for propaganda purposes. Moreover, StopFake journalists could not find a single fact to confirm this story.

The German state radio station and TV channel Deutsche Welle did not shoot a video about the “anti-Ukrainian flash mob in Poland”. No such video is available on the website and social networks of the Polish and English-language versions. Russian propaganda used Deutsche Welle’s signature style to create a fake story about a non-existent anti-Ukrainian flash mob.

Russian media is claiming that a recent New York Times article states that Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov was removed from his position because of the prolonged war with Russia. The real cause is that as the war has dragged on, there is a need for new leadership that could solve problems facing the Defense Ministry, first of all, problems with supply contracts, which have been heavily criticized by Ukraine’s civil society.

Ukrainian law enforcement officers send requests to Poland to extradite only those Ukrainians who are involved in the organization of illegal migrant traffic to the EU.

The circulating brochures are fake. The organization Handbook Germany, on behalf of which this brochure was allegedly published, denied its existence. They also noted that such a fake was intended to offend Ukrainian citizens living in Germany, as well as to cause damage to the reputation of the organization.

A video shared on Facebook claims that Ukraine seized a train filled with fighter jets. Verdict: False There is no evidence that Ukraine captured a train filled with Russian jets.

A column in the Ukrainian online newspaper EuropeanPravda by lawyer Mykhaylo Soldatenko examining the wording and nature of the treaty on future security commitments that Ukraine plans to sign with its allies is being touted by Kremlin propagandists as an example of the West refusing to provide Ukraine with security guarantees. Soldatenko does not write that the G7 countries refuse to provide security guarantees, he simply points out that the word “guarantees” did not appear in the G7 leaders’ declaration after the NATO summit. Ukraine is currently negotiating with the United States and Britain on a bilateral agreement on security guarantees.

Ukraine has not made any statements about the “failure of the counteroffensive” or accusations against China. Cybersecurity expert Vitaliy Yakushev only voiced the information that the Chinese social network TikTok has access to the contents of a user’s phone and uses the data in favor of Chinese intelligence.

President Zelenskyi did not make any statements about Crimea belonging to Russia. What he actually said was that Russia can be forced to withdraw its troops from the occupied Crimea by political pressure. This option will help Ukraine save the lives of its citizens.

The mobile operator’s press service stated that they did not publish this video, nor did they launch such a charity campaign. Kyivstar believes that this disinformation attack is aimed at deliberately causing suffering to the relatives of the victims and creating a public outcry.

During the UN meeting dedicated to the International Day against Nuclear Tests, none of the countries accused Ukraine of threatening a nuclear disaster. Russia’s rhetoric threatens international nuclear safety, as UN representatives from different countries clearly stated.