Anonymous pro-Kremlin telegram channels spread a video allegedly showing a soldier of one of the brigades of the Airborne Assault Troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complaining about non-payment of salaries. The command of the Airborne Assault Troops of the AFU denied this information, noting that it was a discredit attempt, "containing elements of hybrid information warfare and all signs of information and psychological influence." "All information or possible problematic questions of service and social nature that come from our soldiers - the leadership of the military units and the command of the Airborne Assault Troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - are immediately taken for consideration and appropriate measures are taken," the Command reported and added that their units "are provided with ultramodern weapons and combat equipment, all the necessary material means."

"Media Detector" asked for a comment from the brigade referred to in the video. Note that the thesis of "non-payment of salaries to the Ukrainian military" is not the first time spread since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine - for example, read about the fake "Ukraine does not pay salaries to the military.

The Russian media and the Russian Foreign Ministry are spreading information that the Ukrainian army is using ambulances to transport armed soldiers. Along with the thesis that the Ukrainian military is allegedly hiding in ambulances, they spread a fragment of the Al Jazeera story, which "accidentally filmed armed men in camouflage getting out of the ambulance" allegedly in Nikolaev. According to StopFake, Russian media only show a short excerpt from the nearly three-minute Al Jazeera report in order to conceal the full context. In fact, the story was filmed not in Nikolaev, but in Kiev during the evacuation of civilians from Irpen in late March. The Ukrainian military accompanied the evacuees and ensured their safety en route. In his inclusion, Al Jazeera reporter Mahmoud Zaibak says that the Ukrainian army helped with the evacuation. In addition, on March 27, The Washington Post published an article and video report on the evacuation from Irpen. Judging by the visual elements of the report, it was filmed in the same place as the Al Jazeera story.

The Russian propaganda has been spreading this thesis since the Security Service of Ukraine started to publish re-recorded conversations with relatives and friends. On September 12, the SBU released the first recording of a conversation between a Russian soldier and his girlfriend, in which she said to him: "You go ahead and rape Ukrainian women, do not tell me anything". Radio Liberty journalists were able to identify the soldier and his girlfriend. They are Roman and Olga Bikovski, they are from Oryol region, but they have been living in the occupied Crimea for the last few years. Journalists called their friends to get samples of their voices - they are the same as in the "tapes". Read the investigation here.

In early March 2022, the British company ShadowBreak Intl announced that they obtained access to a large amount of data on the radio communications of the Russian troops fighting against Ukraine. At the same time, the company said that the Russian troops often use mobile phones, and their communications are not encrypted, so a lot of conversations can be overheard.

An anonymous telegram channel spread information that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put in his office a rooster from the bombed out house in Borodyanka - he allegedly decided not to buy a popular rooster, but took the surviving figure from Borodyanka. There is indeed a ceramic cockerel in the president's office. However, the figure was given to him by Liera Polianskova, a Kharkiv artist, during a walk in the center of Kiev together with the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, writes "Across the News. At the same time, a rooster from Borodyanka and a kitchen cabinet, which became a symbol of war, were given to the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity with the permission of the owner of the apartment. Read more about the history of the photo that became the meme "How are you, kitchen cupboard?" here.

An anonymous telegram channel controlled by Russian secret services spread the thesis that Russia had launched missiles allegedly at "Ukraine's military bases" on the evening of April 18, when an air alert was declared throughout Ukraine. The AFU General Staff reported that Russia was launching missile and aviation strikes against civilian objects throughout Ukraine. For example, on the night of April 19, two Russian occupants' missiles flew into the territory of a zoo in Mykolaiv.

Russian TV channels, including channels of the Russian Ministry of Defense, are spreading information that civilians are allegedly not hiding in the shelters of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. They try to convince us that the video with the civilians was filmed not at the plant, but "in other shelters. To this thesis, the propagandists add only some screenshots from one video, without recording. At the same time, they do not mention or add many other videos of hiding in the factory. In fact, Denys Prokopenko, commander of the Azov Regiment, and Mykhailo Vershynin, head of the Donetsk Region Patrol Police, stated that hundreds of civilians were at the Azovstal plant. Moreover, the Center to Counter Disinformation pointed out that the day before, Russian propagandists themselves wrote that Azov plant seemed to be "holding civilians of all ages, including children, hostage. This is a manipulation that Russia often uses to justify many cases of violations of laws and customs of war by the Russian military (more than 7,000 criminal cases have been opened) - but it is also proof that Russia knows there are civilians at the plant when it shells Azovstal.

Russian users of social networks spread information that the red paint used in the lake near the Russian embassy in Vilnius is allegedly harmful for the ecosystem of the reservoir. In fact, the paint is not harmful to animals or plants. The action was held on April 6 in Vilnius to draw attention to the crimes of Russia in Ukraine.

According to VoxCheck, a representative of the police of Vilnius district, Julia Zamorokovska, reported that the protest had been coordinated with the environmental inspectors. The representative of Vilnius municipality Paulius Vaitekenas also confirmed that the paint does not harm the ecosystem of the lake. The paint used for the protest was similar to the paint used on St. Patrick's Day, when the waters of the Vilnius River (Vilniale) are painted green. This special paint is safe and environmentally friendly, and dissolves completely in water within 30 minutes. Read more.

Russian propaganda media circulated a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense claiming that "Russian air defense forces near Odessa shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane in mid-air, which was delivering a large shipment of weapons to Ukraine supplied by Western countries. On April 18, a senior U.S. Defense Department official denied that Russia had managed to destroy the plane with help for Ukraine.