This thesis is spread by referring to Spiegel's German newspaper, which published the article "Why is Germany so slow to supply weapons?". One paragraph in this text is currently being actively discussed on social networks and the media. Namely, Spiegel, citing unnamed sources "close to the German government" (i.e., not in the German government), writes: "There is concern that Ukraine may become overconfident if it wins a series of victories on the battlefield and decides to invade Russia, which will mean that German tanks will be inside Russia again. This concern underscores Berlin's distrust of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. And this is also the reason why Germany's defense industry is not allowed to supply battle tanks. "

However, in another part of the article, the German publication criticizes Chancellor Olaf Scholz for "a mixture of incompetence and reluctance" for "the desire to hide behind his allies." "It seems that Scholz would never have laid down any weapons without massive pressure from abroad and within his governing coalition," the paper said. "And this even though Kyiv needs all the help it can get."

At the same time, the thesis of "provoking Russia" is not new to Western politicians. For example, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, when explaining why NATO cannot close the skies over Ukraine, also said that it would "mean NATO's direct involvement in the conflict and carry the risk of a full-scale war for the whole of Europe." Or US President Joe Biden, who, on the day of the announcement of new military aid to Ukraine, in fact, asked: "not to shoot at Russia." "We do not call on Ukraine to strike outside its borders, and we do not give it such an opportunity with our decisions. We do not want to continue the war just to harm Russia, " he wrote in The New York Times. However, their statements are a precaution not to provoke an escalation rather than distrusting the Ukrainian government.

It is not the first time Spiegel has emerged alongside pro-Russian propaganda. Previously, the publication published a "study on Ukrainian tax evasion schemes" without methodology and other data. It was commissioned by the European United Left and Left-Green Greens, known for its pro-Russian stance. The Ukrainian media later republished this information concerning Spiegel. Read more about this in the article "How the Ukrainian media fell into the hands of Russian propaganda." The Cardiff University Institute for Crime and Security Research has also published research on how manipulations of leading Western media, including Spiegel, are used to spread anti-Western disinformation and promote Russia's pro-Kremlin ideas and geopolitical interests.

Russian media continue to spread information about Poland's alleged intentions to seize the western regions of Ukraine. This time, Russian propaganda spread a fake about Poland's likely creation of a "new army": "a 70,000-strong group of Ukrainian police officers, soldiers of the Armed Forces and servicemen of the Polish army." Like "for control" over the "occupied Ukrainian territories." The source of the fake was Marat Bashirov, a Russian politician who was once part of the occupation administration in the Russian-occupied part of the Luhansk region and organized the LNR terrorist structure. It is not the first time he has spread fakes about the war in Ukraine, including Poland.

Russia has spread many fakes against Poland in recent months, such as that Polish President Andrzej Duda's visit to Kyiv proved that Poland had allegedly moved from plans "to seize territory in western Ukraine"; or a photo of billboards allegedly placed in Poland, with the image of the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces Jaroslav Miki with the quote "Time to remember history"; or "Poland has an insidious intention to side with Russia and seize the western part of Ukraine"; or "Poland is tired of Ukrainian refugees, so the local police began to support Russia and glue" Z "on their cars" and many others. With these theses, Russian propaganda is trying to undermine relations between Poland and Ukraine. And also to accuse Poland of inciting war against Ukraine, thereby diverting attention from Russia's military aggression against Ukraine and the atrocities of the Russian military.

  This thesis increasingly began to emerge in Russian and pro-Kremlin telegrams on the 100th day of the Great War. Similar allegations were made during the eight years of war in the Donbas. Through this message, Russian propaganda is trying to spread manipulations and fakes that "Ukraine will stop helping," or "the West will ease sanctions against Russia," or "European countries will not accept Ukrainians fleeing the war," and so on. Similar theses have been circulated in the media in the past, but now they are being grouped under the tentative name of "general fatigue from war." This message is part of the Russian information and psychological operation and is designed to arouse the despair of Ukrainians in victory and international partners. In fact, Ukrainians are not ready to make concessions in the war: as of May 2022, 78% of respondents were against the concessions of Russia. 94% of citizens living in the western and central regions believe in Ukraine's victory in the Russian-Ukrainian war. "Among Ukrainians who are confident of Ukraine's victory, 41% will consider the expulsion of Russian troops from all over Ukraine and the complete restoration of control over the state border in 2014 to be a victory. The exact number (41%) believe that victory can only be considered a situation where the Russian army is completely destroyed, and the Russian Federation disintegrates, "- said a study conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Foundation for Democratic Initiatives with the Center for Political Sociology with the support of John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund. Western countries also continue to support Ukraine and provide weapons, in particular, during the two months of full-scale war with Russia; Ukraine has received more than $ 8 billion in weapons, ammunition, ammunition, and intelligence from NATO and other partners. The United States is also expected to hand over a $ 4.6 billion military aid package to Ukraine. 

Russian media have reported that Pentagon officials are studying Russian equipment seized in Ukraine, including the Dagger missile, to "copy and get something for themselves." Russian propaganda refers to an article in The New York Times in these reports.

According to StopFake, the American publication did write that researchers from the Pentagon came to Ukraine to analyze Russian technology. However, their trip explores how Russia's military-industrial complex uses Western technology. "Researchers have found that ammunition and equipment, including missile guidance systems and laser rangefinders, contain microchips, printed circuit boards, motors, and antennas manufactured in the United States and the European Union," the statement said. "Currently, several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, are investigating how components of their production entered Russia's weapons systems to circumvent the arms embargo."

Fact-checkers recalled that back in 2014, after Russia's occupation of Crimea, the United States and other EU countries imposed the first restrictions on supplying weapons and selling high-performance computer chips to Russian companies. After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, an embargo was imposed on the supply of advanced technologies to Russia, such as the export of semiconductors, computers, lasers, telecommunications equipment, etc. At the same time, the NYT material refers to X-101 cruise missiles, Azart radio stations, and reconnaissance drones, but there are no Dagger missiles among them.

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Russian media, in particular Ria Novosti, distributed fake documents of the alleged Azov Regiment found in Mariupol. These documents seem to be about preparations for hostilities in Mariupol and the suburbs. The fake document also states that "the local population is pro-Russian in 70% of cases." However, Russian propaganda made mistakes with the translation: although the "document" was written in Ukrainian, it was classified in Russian. "The documents have been given a strange stamp - "sekretnno " - instead of Ukrainian -" tayemno, " "the Center for Counteracting Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council said.

At the same time, the thesis about "70% of the pro-Russian population" is also untrue, according to various surveys. Despite the high level of distrust in the government, Mariupol in 2021 had a positive or neutral attitude towards Ukraine. It should be noted that there were no solid pro-Russian sentiments before; according to a 2015 poll, most residents of the south-eastern regions do not see Donbas outside Ukraine; The 2016 poll shows that 72% of residents of the free territories of Donbas would like the region to be part of Ukraine. As of May 2022, in all regions of Ukraine, the vast majority of residents have a terrible attitude towards Russia; in particular, in the South, 90% have a bad mood, and in the East - 85%. 82% of citizens who continue to live in the territory occupied after February 24, 2022, have a negative attitude towards Russia, and only 6% have a positive attitude towards it.

Ukrainians received an SMS-mailing from Ukraine@ with a fake message that allegedly, there was the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to disconnect the Zaporizhzhia region. Earlier, Russian propaganda had already tried to discredit the newsletter from the Ukraine account, which belonged to the State Special Service. So, as in the case of phishing sites, you should pay attention to the correct spelling of the name - any extra letters, symbols, or numbers may indicate the fake account or location.

The State Special Communications Service also denied the information that the National Security and Defense Council had allegedly decided to suspend the provision of services by Ukrainian operators in the Zaporizhzhia region. The Service clarified that the National Security and Defense Council did not and could not give such orders. "Since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian authorities have taken a clear and understandable position - in any case, they do not limit the opportunities for mobile and Internet services for our citizens, regardless of whether they live in the occupied territories. It is essential for the state that citizens stay in touch and have the opportunity to contact their relatives, call emergency services and receive truthful information about the war's course. For such opportunities before the Russian invasion and in the first days of the war, the National Center for Operational and Technical Management of Telecommunications Networks (NCU) at the State Special Communications Service provided appropriate explanations to all Ukrainian operators, " the Service said and added that this mailing was another information and psychological operation in Russia. Earlier, the Russian occupiers cut off Ukrainian communications in the Kherson region and tried to blame the Ukrainian authorities.

The fake telegrams are spreading a fake that the evacuation is being carried out from Mariupol under the auspices of the UN and the Red Cross, but it is necessary to pay for it. In fact, no evacuation is planned from Mariupol at the moment. "No evacuation from Mariupol is planned for now. There were no reports about it - the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko told. - This information is a deliberate deception aimed at obtaining money for transportation from the occupied territories without providing services. In fact, it is a fraud. Phone number of phone scams: +380683279596 ».

In recent times, fraudsters have often manipulated the issue of war in their schemes, the most common of which is alleged financial aid from the state, banks, other organizations, or countries. Hackers also use this topic during phishing attacks. Information on evacuation or financial assistance should be checked on the websites of the organizations that are to provide it or on the resources of local authorities. We warn that fraudsters often create clones of social networking sites, banks, and other institutions. To avoid problems - do not visit these sites by following the link; search for official sites through a search engine and pay attention to their addresses.

There is a fake on social networks and Russian media that Ukrainians are allegedly evading conscription to army service en masse. Along with the fake, they are distributing a video in which a man tries to escape from several security officers in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas who are harassing him.

According to StopFake, the video was shot in May 2016 in Kazakhstan, in which local security forces detained one of the protesters who went to a rally against land reform. At the same time, the Command of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine denied the information that mass evasion of mobilization is massive in Ukraine. In May, Roman Gorbach, Chief of Staff, said there were individual cases of evasion of military service, but very few and did not affect the overall picture.