Russian media broadcasting pro-Kremlin rhetoric spread information that Poland began to reach the eastern borders of 1772. The visit to Ukraine of the State Secretary of the Ministry of Development and Regional Policy, authorized by Poland for Polish-Ukrainian cooperation in the field of development, Jadwiga Emilewicz, testifies to the beginning of economic expansion. It is not true.

The fact-checkers of the Center for Strategic Communications drew attention to the case. Jadwiga Emilewicz’s visit to Ukraine was connected with a project that attracts Poland to restore Ukraine. She arrived at the seminar “Polish-Ukrainian cooperation and prospects for the restoration of Ukraine”. And this pilot project itself includes the restoration of 8 western and central regions.

Thus, Russian agitprop is systematically spreading messages that Poland wants to take over the western part of Ukraine. All this in order to sow discord between the two states and reduce Poles' support for Ukraine. Earlier, we refuted the fake that Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Andrzej Duda met in Lutsk to implement the first stage of the Warsaw Union.

In the Russian segment of Facebook, information is being disseminated that residents of Cherkasy were sentenced to 10 years in prison, allegedly due to correspondence with their sister from Russia and criticism of Stepan Bandera. This is manipulation.

The fact-checkers of the Center for Strategic Communications drew attention to the case. The woman's name is Tetiana Drobot, in October 2022 she received 10 years in prison. However, the reason was not the correspondence with the sister living in Russia, but the transfer to the Russians of data on the deployment of the Ukrainian military. Drobot also called for changing the border of Ukraine and incited ethnic hatred.

Thus, the Russian propaganda is trying to discredit the Ukrainian authorities and military command. Russia simply reflects its actions and thus tries to present itself as a permanent victim of Ukraine's “aggression”. Earlier, we talked about the fact that a video is being distributed on the network, where people in uniform take everything valuable in a German family and say: “Heil Zelenskyi!”.

Anonymous telegram channels broadcasting pro-Kremlin rhetoric and the Ukrainian segment of Twitter spread the advertisement allegedly filmed by the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party. In the video, people in uniform come to a German family and begin to take everything of value out of the apartment. Then they hang a portrait of Volodymyr Zelenskyi and say, “Heil Zelenskyi”. The main opinion of the video is that Ukraine is robbing the inhabitants of Germany. It's fake.

The case was studied by the fact-checkers of the Center for Strategic Communications. They determined that there was no such video on the website of the Alternative for Germany party. It is not mentioned in the German press, moreover, the video is actively distributed in pro-Kremlin blogs. Radio Liberty journalists found that Russian actors played the roles in this video, which suggests that the video itself was probably also filmed by Russians.

Thus, Russian propaganda is trying to discredit Germany and show that Ukraine is draining the resources of other countries. All this to reduce Western aid. Previously, we talked about the manipulation that Latvia transferred all the air defense systems to Ukraine and was left without protection.

Russian media and anonymous telegram channels broadcasting pro-Kremlin rhetoric spread information that in the village of Piskivka, Buchanskyi district, Kyiv region, the director of the cemetery allegedly refused to provide a place for the burial of a Ukrainian military man, which is why the funeral procession was not allowed into the cemetery. They also add videos. It's fake.

The fact-checkers of the Myth Detector project drew attention to the case. In the video, the woman is outraged that the procession was not allowed through the main alley of the cemetery, because of which she went along the field road. Fact-checkers turned to the Piskivka community, where they completely denied this information. Moreover, this cemetery is not located in the village of Piskivka.

Probably, the procession was not allowed because of the main entrance, because repairs were being carried out there, so they had to take a detour. The checkers also confirmed that this cemetery is located in the Sviatovasylevska community of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Thus, the Russian propaganda is trying to show that in Ukraine the Ukrainian military is treated with disdain and the society is split. Earlier, we refuted the fake that the Ukrainian military fired at the Togliatti-Odesa ammonia pipeline.

Russian media, broadcasting pro-Kremlin rhetoric, spread information that Ukraine “threatens to continue terror against the Crimeans” and announces new attacks on the “civilian infrastructure” of the peninsula. This was told by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov. They also wrote that Ukraine was striking at the Crimea, despite the “prohibition of the Americans to strike at the territory of Russia”. It's fake.

The case was investigated by the fact-checkers of the Myth Detector project. The fake appeared against the background of news about explosions on the Crimean bridge on the night of July 17, as well as frequent explosions at military training grounds in Crimea. Pro-Kremlin media are calling the attacks “terrorist attacks on civilian targets”, but the bridge was built in defiance of international law, and the Russian military is using it to deliver ammunition to military firing ranges.

Ukraine does not comment on the attacks on the Crimean bridge, but on July 25, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov gave an interview to CNN, in which he said that Russian ammunition depots in the temporarily occupied Crimea and an illegal bridge are legal targets for attacks by the Ukrainian military. He also noted that cutting off the path of military supplies to the enemy is a normal practice during the conduct of hostilities.

Thus, Russian propaganda is trying to feed the narrative about the existence of Nazi Ukrainians who are ready to kill civilians. But to convince that Russia was forced to enter the war in order to defend itself from the attacks of Ukraine. Earlier, we talked about the message that Ukraine is committing war crimes because it “transferred” the war to Ukrainian cities.

Many peoples of Eurasia have tales about how a family saves from trouble and helps to overcome evil. One of the modifications of this story is the “tale of the three sisters”. It is told in Azerbaijan and the Czech Republic.

Russian propagandists overlaid the instructive fairy tale plot with the thesis that Ukrainians, Belarusians and Russians are part of one people. With methods about this, they come to the occupied territories and promote them there in education. In the Russian interpretation, the West is setting Ukraine, Belarus and Russia against each other. They say that Ukraine could succeed in peace with the “sisters”, but the United States wants to break the greatness of Russia, which lies in the agreement between the “sisters”.

Such formulations are toxic. The peoples of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia are Slavic. They are part of the world's history. But now they are developing in three independent states. And each of them has its own characteristics. Belarus is ruled by a dictator dependent on Russia. Russia, too, is dominated by an undemocratic regime that is trying to expand the borders of its state by returning to its control the countries that became independent after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ukraine, on the other hand, is building democracy, preparing to join the European Union and resisting Russia's armed aggression.

The “cultural proximity” of the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian peoples was imposed  when the Ukrainian and Belarusian lands were part of the Russian Empire and the USSR. At that time, cultural proximity served as an instrument of oppression and destruction of the identity of the Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples.

With stories about “three sisters”, propagandists justify Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, because this is how Russia looks like an “elder sister” who admonishes and saves the younger one. They also parasitize on the image of the Soviet past, but they fail to remember that in the USSR the unity of peoples was served along with repressions and a shortage of basic products.

The appeal of propagandists to fabulous and mythical stories should not obscure the facts that Russia attacked Ukraine and continues to commit terrible crimes and violate international law.