A Polish pro-Russian Telegram channel has spread information that Hezbollah has struck Israel with “rockets” allegedly signed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi. A fragment of a 155-millimeter artillery shell found near the Israeli city of Haifa allegedly contains Zelenskyi's signature. In reporting this, the propagandists cite “local media”, in particular The Jerusalem Post.

The response message adds that Zelenskyi had previously visited a military ammunition plant in the American city of Scranton, where he inspected the work of the military-industrial complex and called for an increase in ammunition supplies to Ukraine. At the same time, as the propagandists report, ammunition from this plant was delivered directly to the Hezbollah warehouse or was resold by the Ukrainian side.

In fact, there is no real evidence that Hezbollah fired shells with Zelenskyi's signature at Israel. The Ukrainian president did visit the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in September 2024 during a visit to the United States and left his signature on some shells. However, these shells could not have reached Hezbollah, since the Scranton plant is fully loaded with Ukrainian supplies.

After all, The Jerusalem Post, which the propagandists cite, did not report on its website or social media that Hezbollah had fired shells at Israel with Zelenskyi’s signature.

Pro-Russian sources are distributing a photo of what appears to be the cover of the Scottish newspaper The National with the headline “Zelenskyi provokes nuclear crisis” on the front page. The newspaper also asks: “Why does Zelenskyi's victory plan pose a threat to the world's nuclear security?”

In fact, The National did not publish such material, and the newspaper's cover was edited. This is written about in the StopFake project. In its official account on the X social network, the publication published what the issue of The National for October 18, 2024 looked like. The front page did not contain any news about Volodymyr Zelenskyi or Ukraine in general. It was about the ceremonial farewell to former Scottish Prime Minister Alex Salmond, who died of a heart attack on October 12, 2024.

Russians have been speculating on the topic of nuclear weapons since the publication of the Victory Plan by Volodymyr Zelenskyi and his statement that the guarantee of security for Ukraine could be either nuclear weapons (which the state renounced in 1996) or NATO membership. Despite the fact that the president clarified that Ukraine is not developing and does not plan to restore nuclear weapons, Putin has already managed to accuse Ukraine of provocations. However, it is Russia that regularly uses nuclear blackmail as an instrument of foreign policy.

Previously, we analyzed the Russian message that Ukraine was trying to provoke Russia into a nuclear strike.

Upon the arrival of pilgrims from Israel to Ukraine to celebrate the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah, Russian resources distributed a video online in which several Hasidim allegedly tore Ukrainian flags from a flagpole and threw them in the trash. Instead, they installed the Israeli flag. And at the end of the video, the man who threw the Ukrainian flag in the trash bin said in Russian: ‘This is Israel, baby”.

In fact, this video was not filmed in Ukraine and has nothing to do with the celebration of Rosh Hashanah by pilgrims in Uman. This is reported in the StopFake project. Using a reverse image search in Yandex, it was possible to establish that this video had been distributed online since at least June 2022. The video was mainly published by Russian propaganda resources, as well as anonymous Telegram channels. Many of the resources where the video appeared claimed that it was filmed in Israel, where local residents, unhappy with the presence of Ukrainian flags on the streets, replaced them with Israeli symbols.

Such fakes about anti-Semitism of Ukrainians or deliberate bad attitude of Jews towards Ukrainians are not uncommon. Earlier we analyzed the Russian disinformation message that Ukraine organized a “Jewish pogrom” in Dagestan.

Russian sources are spreading the news that the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Oksen Lisovyi allegedly proposed introducing restrictions on travel abroad for high school students. According to the propagandists, such an idea indicates that Ukraine is preparing to mobilize young men and even teenagers.

However, the StopFake project reports that Russian propagandists manipulated Oksen Lisovyi’s words. The Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine spoke on this topic during the hour of questions to the government in the Verkhovna Rada. Answering the question, Lisovyi said that a large number of high school students choose to continue their education abroad. This worries the government, and the state seeks to encourage Ukrainian youth to stay in the country in various ways.

However, the minister did not say anything about introducing new restrictions on travel abroad. At the same time, he noted that teenagers should be motivated to build their lives in Ukraine, first of all, by high-quality professional, higher and higher education that meets the needs of young people.

Russian propaganda regularly spreads disinformation about the mobilization of Ukrainian youth, teenagers and even children. For example, earlier we recorded a fake about the alleged mass mobilization of students in Ukrainian universities.

Russian sources are spreading information that the National Bank of Ukraine has allegedly declared cryptocurrency illegal, and PrivatBank, in turn, has allegedly banned transactions with it.

However, in reality, the propagandists manipulated the information, writes the StopFake project. The original source of the manipulative message was a scandalous publication that is under sanctions by the National Security and Defense Council for the constant dissemination of fakes and Russian propaganda narratives.

In an interview with the Interfax agency, the head of the NBU Andriш Pyshnyi did say that the hryvnia was and remains the only legal means of payment in Ukraine. At the same time, the country has a parallel cryptocurrency market that requires regulation and bringing out of the shadows:

“Are we working on this challenge? Yes, we are. Several technical missions of the IMF took place, the purpose of which was to deeply study various experiences and develop comprehensive proposals for legislative regulation of the virtual asset market that would take into account the European experience and requirements for financial monitoring”, Pyshnyi said.

That is, the head of the NBU did not announce any bans on the use of cryptocurrency - he only said that the status of this instrument in Ukraine has not yet been determined, but the NBU is working on this issue. Moreover, according to Pyshnyi himself, the goal of the National Bank is not to displace cryptocurrency, but to “create the most transparent and understandable rules of the game in this market”.

Earlier, PrivatBank did restrict the withdrawal of hryvnia to cryptocurrency exchanges. However, this decision was made at the beginning of a full-scale invasion based on the Law of Ukraine “On the Prevention and Counteraction of Legalization (Laundering) of Proceeds from Crime, Financing of Terrorism and Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction”. At the same time, this restriction only concerned international transactions and does not prevent clients from using cryptocurrency within Ukraine.

A little earlier we analyzed a Russian fake, supposedly the VISA payment system was returning to Russian territory.

Russian resources are distributing a video story on behalf of Euronews about a tragic story that allegedly happened in Poland. Thus, the video says that on October 2, 2024, a Polish soldier from the International Legion allegedly killed his wife and her “Ukrainian lover”, and then set fire to his own apartment and committed suicide.

However, this information is not true. This is reported in the StopFake project. Propagandists have faked a Euronews video on this topic. After all, there is no such video on the website or in any of the publication's social networks. Also, information about this incident could not be found in any of the Polish publications or in the local group of the village of Chochłów, where the retaliatory events allegedly took place. Only 1,200 people live in this small tourist town, so the double murder and arson of a home could not go unnoticed. However, the lack of discussion of this event in a fairly active local group further indicates that this news is completely made up.

After all, the “news” about a domestic murder amid jealousy in Poland does not fit the usual editorial content on Euronews, which usually only reports on events that are significant for Europe and the world.

With such propaganda, Russian propagandists are trying to humiliate Ukrainian refugees abroad and worsen Polish-Ukrainian relations.

This is not the first time that propagandists have spread fabricated stories on behalf of Euronews. We have previously documented similar leaks:

– Ukrainian artist allegedly amputated his leg “in solidarity” with the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Euronews story)

- Territorial center of recruitment and social support workers allegedly beat up an ethnic Hungarian in western Ukraine, Euronews story

- Euronews allegedly reported on a Ukrainian fraudster in Poland who opened a beauty salon with fat-sucking mosquitoes

- The French President is allegedly being forced to escalate the Russian-Ukrainian war by blackmail (Euronews story)

- Euronews allegedly showed a story about how the statement of the Ukrainian Embassy in France angered French farmers