The Russian media write about this concerning the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov. He once again says that the events in Bucha are "a decision of the Ukrainian authorities." The Ukrainian authorities allegedly deliberately hide the list of victims because, "in reality," there are no victims. It is a fake.

In fact, the lists of the dead were publicly available in the spring, and they were published and periodically updated by the Information Center of the Ritual Service of the Bucha City Council. However, this information was preliminary because many unidentified victims were on the list.

According to local authorities, 76 Bucha and Bucha Region residents were eventually buried unknown. In the future, they plan to identify the dead through DNA samples. In total, more than 400 residents died during the occupation. The graves of the victims of the Russian army are still being found during the liquidation of the traces of the occupation. Therefore, it is impossible to provide the final lists of the dead, as Lavrov demands. Fact-checkers of The Insider project drew attention to the spread of the fake. In this way, Russia tries to hide the crimes of its military.

Earlier, the propagandists wrote that the photo and video from Bucha were a provocation of Ukraine to get help from the West and discredit the Russian army, disrupting the peace agreements. During the de-occupation of the Kharkiv Region, anticipatory propaganda claimed that Ukraine would launch messages about Russians torturing Ukrainian civilians. At the same time, when numerous burials of dead civilians were discovered, propagandists spread the message that the exhumation of the victims' bodies in Lyman and Izyum was an insult to the bodies.

In pro-Russian Telegram channels, the message of the Russian propagandist, the director of the Russian-language broadcasting of the Russia Today TV channel, Anton Krasovsky, during an interview with the Russian fiction writer Serhiy Lukyanenko, is being distributed.

Anton Krasovsky called for killing Ukrainian children, and telegram channels are already calling for the extermination of all Ukrainians. In order to emphasize the "inhumanity" of Ukrainians, the reports use a fake that the Armed Forces allegedly "carry cats and dogs with them, which are not fed for several days, so that they can then be fed to dead Russian soldiers." The fact checkers of the NotaYenot project drew attention to the spread of the message. In fact, Russian propaganda has long been talking about the "inferiority and inferiority" of Ukrainians, accusing them of Nazism and cultivating intolerance and aggression towards Ukrainians.

Propagandist Krasovsky has spread anti-Ukrainian appeals before. He claimed that the so-called "special operation" would not end until Ukraine signs its capitulation and that Ukrainian children should be taken care of only when they "become Russian." Read more about Krasovsky's statements and the reaction to them. Pro-Russian Telegram channels are also not the first to show aggression towards Ukrainians.

After the massive rocket attacks on October 10, the Russians rejoiced at the death of civilians. As a result of the strike, Ukrainians were left without electricity, water, and heat. The spread of such messages causes an obvious emotional solid reaction in Ukrainians, which is then used by propaganda for its purposes. In this way, Russian propaganda tries to impose the opinion that "Ukrainians aren't sorry." They try to justify a full-scale invasion and the deaths of thousands of people.

This message is again spread by the Russian Kremlin media, denying the tragedy that Ukrainians experienced in 1932-33. This time, the "news" began to be promoted against the message that the Russian occupiers dismantled a monument to the victims of the Holodomor in occupied Mariupol. It was dismantled because, according to "historical sources," famine in the regions of the South of Russia and then the Soviet Union was allegedly a recurring phenomenon. Therefore, due to the famine in 1932-33, the tremendous losses were not in Ukraine but other regions of the Ukrainian SSR. As analysts of the Myth Detector project write, the propagandists also claimed that the "authorities" of the city are not fighting the historical monument but are removing "a symbol of misinformation created at the state level." In fact, misinformation about the Holodomor has been circulating for decades. Natural phenomena didn't cause the famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. The tragedy was the result of Joseph Stalin's purposeful policy. Falsifying the number of victims during the famine and connecting the famine with natural phenomena were initially part of the propaganda of the Soviet Union. Russian propaganda has now adopted this method, which seeks to hide the crimes of the Stalin regime and deny the genocide.

This information was spread by the Russian Kremlin mass media and anonymous pro-Russian Telegram channels. The Pentagon allegedly told Kyiv that HIMARS is no longer available for Ukraine." Propagandists draw such conclusions based on an article in The New Yorker. However, it isn't true. As StopFake writes, in fact, the US Ministry of Defense has officially announced that it will deliver 18 HIMARS MLRS to Ukraine as part of the following package. The New Yorker's source in the Pentagon assured Ukraine would receive "more weapons of greater complexity and on a larger scale."

Such information is distributed on social networks. Reports say that the French ambassador to Ukraine allegedly resigned and left Kyiv due to danger. The reports added that Etienne de Ponsins allegedly said that Zelenskyy had left Ukraine, and therefore any resistance was "futile and entailed colossal human casualties." However, it isn't true. Fact-checkers from StopFake drew attention to the fake. The French ambassador to Ukraine remains at his post in Kyiv. "A screenshot of the publication about his resignation and the statement that President Zelenskyy allegedly left Ukraine appeared on the fake Facebook page of RT Afrique. In the StopFake comment, Mr. Ambassador said that he didn't make such statements," the fact-checkers write.

The video of French police brutally suppressing demonstrations in Paris is circulating on social networks. Posts under the video claim that these allegedly protest against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Russian-Ukrainian war. It is not true. The protest in Paris on October 16 had nothing to do with NATO or the war in Ukraine. The reason for the rally was the rising cost of living and global warming.

French fact-checkers of the Logically project found the video from the rally using a reverse search. The original video caption says French police use tear gas to disperse a march against high prices and climate inaction in Paris. The Associated Press also uploaded a YouTube video of the same fight from a different vantage point on October 22, 2022. At the beginning of the video, one of the protest banners read "March against dear life" in French.

Such a message is spread, in particular, in the Belgian segment of social networks. Pro-Russian users share photos and videos of a lightly injured woman who took a selfie while ambulance workers treated her. If you were the victim of a missile strike, you don't seem to care about selfies or videos. So, according to propagandists, this behavior of people shows that they are actors and not really victims.

Belgian fact-checkers drew attention to the spread of the message. They write that the photos and video fragments shared on social networks are, in fact, taken out of context in such a way as to leave room for ambiguous conclusions.

Propagandists used the behavior of one of the least traumatized victims to promote their message while ignoring more serious human injuries and deaths. Other victims of the Russian attack can be seen in the photo's background, including people injured by glass fragments from the office center next to which the rocket landed. Numerous photographs and videos taken by Ukrainian and foreign journalists in Kyiv on October 10 confirm that the photos show seriously injured people, not actors. The photos were also published on the front pages of foreign publications, which Russian propaganda accused of posting fake images.

In the Georgian and Russian segments of social networks, pictures allegedly showed the results of a survey of the French regarding the "escalation of relations with Russia" being distributed. The opinions of the French on whether it is worth supplying weapons to Ukraine in the future were divided: 23.3% supported Ukraine, while 76.7% gave a negative answer to this question. It is not true.

In fact, the results of the vote were shared on Twitter when the question was discussed on the TV show. According to MythDetector fact-checkers, any social network user could participate in the vote.

So the survey results represent the opinion of social network users, not the French. In fact, according to various studies, the attitude of the French population to the supply of weapons to Ukraine is different. According to a survey by the "Institute of French Public Opinion" (Ifop), 60% of French people support the supply of arms to Ukraine, and two-thirds support economic sanctions against Russia. The survey also showed that 6 out of 10 French people support Ukraine's accession to the European Union. Russian propaganda systematically manipulates "public opinion" to create the impression that citizens of other countries don't support Ukraine.

Earlier, propagandists wrote that the Austrians were allegedly demanding an end to support for Ukraine, and the Germans were less and less supportive of anti-Russian sanctions. Also, over 3 billion people reportedly abstained from voting on Russia's occupation of Ukrainian territories.

The Russian-Ukrainian war was discussed on a Georgian pro-Russian TV channel. One of the invited speakers said that the allegedly Ukrainian counterattack in the direction of Kharkiv was "unsuccessful."

Instead, from the Kherson side, Russia "ceded" certain territories but "regrouped its forces and created defensive barriers." This speaker also noted that Ukrainian units allegedly suffered many losses and were surrounded by the Russian army. They showed a video recording of an alleged battle between the Ukrainian and Russian troops "in an open field" to confirm this message. As a result, the Russians destroyed a Ukrainian tank division. This video recording is fake.

Fact-checkers of the Georgian project MithDetector established that, in fact, this video contains footage from the video game simulator Arma 3, developed by the Czech company Bohemia Interactive. The footage used in the program is cut from one of the videos posted on MILMAN's YouTube channel. The simulated video shows the destruction of Russian tanks by the NLAW anti-tank system from the Ukrainian side. Thematic videos related to the Russian-Ukrainian war have been published on this channel since July 2022.

It isn't the first time that Russian propaganda has used footage from the video game to spread fakes about the course of military events.