This is the second time the Russian media spread a fake that the Ukrainian armed forces blew up a nitric acid tanker at the Zarya plant in Rubizhne, Luhansk region. The first fake was on April 5, when a nitric acid tanker at the Zarya plant was damaged by Russian artillery fire. The second was on April 9, when Russian troops blew up cisterns at the same plant. The main argument of Russian propaganda is that the Ukrainian military was allegedly retreating from the city and had an explosion as a last resort. Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk OVA, said that for a month and a half now the Russian army has not been able to break through towards Luhansk, so there is no question of capitulation, surrender of the city and withdrawal of Ukrainian troops. StopFake writes that the nitrogen explosion in Rubizhne on April 9, according to preliminary estimates, has a kill zone of no more than 550 meters, which gives no tactical advantage to the Ukrainian military, but creates problems for the maintenance of the city.

This is the second time the Russian media spread a fake that the Ukrainian armed forces blew up a nitric acid tanker at the Zarya plant in Rubizhne, Luhansk region. The first fake was on April 5, when a nitric acid tanker at the Zarya plant was damaged by Russian artillery fire. The second was on April 9, when Russian troops blew up cisterns at the same plant. The main argument of Russian propaganda is that the Ukrainian military was allegedly retreating from the city and had an explosion as a last resort. Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk OVA, said that for a month and a half now the Russian army has not been able to break through towards Luhansk, so there is no question of capitulation, surrender of the city and withdrawal of Ukrainian troops. StopFake writes that the nitrogen explosion in Rubizhne on April 9, according to preliminary estimates, has a kill zone of no more than 550 meters, which gives no tactical advantage to the Ukrainian military, but creates problems for the maintenance of the city.

Russian media are spreading reports that EU chief diplomat Josep Borrel allegedly "wished for a military solution to the conflict. StopFake writes that Russian propagandists spread part of his tweet about the results of his trip to Ukraine: "This war must be won on the battlefield. In fact, the full version of the quote is: "This war will be won on the battlefield. We will allocate an additional 500 million euros. Weapons supplies will be tailored to Ukraine's needs." In the following tweet, Borrell explains that the reason for the increased support for Ukraine is Russia's war crimes, in particular the shelling of Kramatorsk by Russian troops. Borrel sees sanctions as the main means of "pressure on Russia." "We need to continue to increase the pressure on Russia. We have already imposed large-scale sanctions, but we need to do more in the energy sector, particularly oil."

A satellite image is spreading in the network, which allegedly shows 30 thousand bags with the corpses of Azov fighters in Mariupol. VoxCheck denied the fake, noting that the images, taken on March 29, 2022 by the Maxar Technologies Worldview-3 satellite, show about a hundred people in line in front of one of the surviving grocery stores in Mariupol. "Civilians were waiting in line to get food and other necessary items. Now there is a humanitarian disaster in Mariupol - no food, medicine, electricity and heating. Russian troops are not allowing humanitarian aid into the city," the factcheckers told.

The Facebook page, which was created only in January 2022, circulated a video showing a squad of fighters, one of whom had a chevron with the Tornado battalion emblem on it. It is noteworthy that only one fighter has the Tornado chevron - no other insignia is visible in the video. The angle for the video was chosen so that the chevron was in the frame. All the soldiers were wearing balaclavas for the formation in the room, hiding their faces. We can assume that they knew that the video would be recorded. In the video, the fighters are allegedly read out the decree of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the transfer of hostilities to the territory of Russia. In this video, Zelenskyy is referred to as the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In fact, the commander-in-chief of the AFU is Valerii Zaluzhnyi, and Zelenskyy is the supreme commander of the AFU. The order read out stated that it was necessary to prepare a number of units of the Ukrainian army "to carry out combat operations in the directions: the city of Belgorod and the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation". It was impossible to establish when this video was recorded, because the metadata was erased. Earlier, the Center for Counteracting Information under the CNSD warned that Russia was preparing new provocations in Belgorod to accuse Ukraine. The AFU General Staff also repeatedly reported that Ukrainian troops were conducting defensive operations.

Russian propaganda media are spreading reports that the Ukrainian authorities, with the support of Western countries, are allegedly "preparing an action with mass extermination of civilians" in the occupied areas of Luhansk Region, "preparing a shooting provocation with shooting of ambulances" in Severodonetsk District, "blowing up the reserve area. This is all allegedly to accuse the Russian military and Russian-controlled militants. The Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security noted that Russia is again trying to shift responsibility for the crimes committed to Ukraine. "Given that during the 8 years of war in eastern Ukraine not a single Ukrainian government has considered the military option of returning the temporarily occupied territories, accusations of provocations by the Russian Federation are meaningless. Russia will have to take responsibility for the extermination of the civilian population of Ukraine, as the International Courts are already working on the investigation of the crimes committed by the occupiers on the territory of our state," the Center added.

Unidentified people wrote to Russian "Wikipedia" that activist and leader of "Democratic Axe" Yuri Gudymenko died on March 30. Gudymenko pointed this out to him. On 11 March this information was removed from Wikipedia, noting: "Yury Gudymenko is alive. This is confirmed by his Instagram posts from March 30." Russian propaganda uses Wikipedia as a tool for spreading its manipulations and narratives - this is evidenced, in particular, by the large number of disagreements in the Ukrainian and Russian versions of Wikipedia regarding the same cases or personalities; there have been repeated cases of editing facts and attempts to remove materials from the encyclopedia. We urge not to trust unverified information and to use only official sources. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is created by volunteers and volunteers, and is often edited by amateurs. Read how Wikipedia counteracts fakes here.

Russian media and pro-Kremlin telegram channels spread reports that the serial number of the 9M79-1 missile fired at the train station in Kramatorsk on April 8 "clearly indicates that the projectile belongs to Ukraine. The propagandists use footage from an Italian TV channel TG La7 story about the Russian attack on Kramatorsk. StopFake writes that the marking on the 9M79-1 missile means that the missile belongs to the Tochka-U class, and the number Sh91579 can in no way identify the missile as belonging to a Ukrainian military unit. This is a factory marking that was put on all missiles at the Votkinsk Machine-Building Plant, where these missiles were manufactured during the Soviet era. The Tochka-U is currently in service with eight countries. Russian media also say that the Sh915 missiles were already allegedly used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the shelling of Alchevsk on February 2, 2015. However, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission at the time did not confirm the use of Tochka-U by the Ukrainian military against Alchevsk. The Russian-controlled militants in Alchevsk were unable to provide the OSCE experts with the missile itself or its wreckage.

On April 10, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Russian troops destroyed launchers of Ukrainian S-300 surface-to-air missile systems, among them one handed over by Slovakia. Russian propaganda was countered by Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Geger in a tweet. He wrote that Ukraine has officially confirmed that the destruction thesis is false. .