This information is promoted by the Russian media. They say that the countries of the European Union will become "a base for training Nazi militants" who should carry out "terrorist operations" against the "civilian population" in the Donetsk region.

This information appeared in the Russian media after the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on August 22, informed journalists about the EU plans to organize a mission to train the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to effectively counter Russian aggression.

As such, there is no joint EU mission yet: the head of European diplomacy said that the launch of a large training program for the Ukrainian military in the use of Western weapons will be discussed at the end of August at a meeting of EU defense ministers in Prague, StopFake reports.

Consequently, the European Union and Ukraine do not engage in “terrorist training”. In fact, it is Russia that can be accused of preparing terrorists, since it started a war against Ukraine, kills civilians and destroys Ukrainian cities and villages. By spreading the thesis about “training centers for Ukrainian saboteurs” for operations in the Donbas, Russia is distracting from its own war crimes in the East of Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video in which, allegedly, the Russian occupiers "destroy a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine." Allegedly, the video shows how “reactive infantry flamethrowers Shmil destroyed the following units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and prevented their breakthrough.”

In fact, the video shows the Russian military destroying sunflowers, writes Nastoyashchee Vriemia (the Current Time). According to the metadata, the video was recorded on July 31 and is called Zanyattya_1DShB_v2, which may indicate that army training was filmed. Obviously, this is a shooting exercise, this is indicated by the fact that the operator is calmly standing near the military.

Russian propaganda repeatedly ascribes victories to itself and films the staging of strikes on video. One such video shows a journalist instructing a military man when to start shooting in order to record a "bright" flash.

  The occupying authorities in Kherson and the region used photographs of children from the Kyiv region on propaganda billboards. A resident of the Kyiv region, professional photographer Hanna Pasichnyk recognized her children on pro-Russian posters that appeared in Kherson no later than July 18, writes BBC Ukraine. Hanna Pasichnyk sold a photo session with her son and his best friend on the website of the Shutterstock photo bank. The children were standing on a flowering field of rapeseed in embroidered shirts. “Children are asking for support for Ukraine,” that is the description of the photo in English. Pictures with children in vyshyvankas (embroidered shirts) will later appear on billboards in occupied Kherson. Russian propaganda used her photo without permission. “Russia is here forever!”, “Kherson is forever with Russia”, “Kherson is a Russian city,” photos of billboards with such slogans were published by the pro-Russian public Kherson.ru a few weeks later. The Russian flag was photoshopped behind the children's backs, and yellow rapeseed flowers were replaced with a flower meadow. Subsequently, photos of a damaged billboard in Kherson appeared on the network. In the inscription "Kherson - forever with Russia" the unknown painted over the letters "son" in the name of the city. On August 24, Hanna published a post on Instagram in which she publicly spoke out against the use of her photos in occupied Kherson: “[Russia] takes photos of my happy children in embroidered shirts, despicably photoshops their bloody dirty flag, writes a false, hateful slogan and hangs it in Ukrainian Kherson, from which you want, excuse me, to jerk ... " After this publication, Hanna says, residents of the occupied Kherson began to write to her, who, she says, got angry: they say that the Russians dressed their children in our embroidered shirts and now they say that we want to go to Russia. “Now they are writing to me: thank you for telling all this, because it was very disgusting for us to see it. Now we understand that they didn’t even take pictures of anything,” she says.  

The Kremlin media, referring to a collaborator in the Zaporizhzhia region, spread the information that the Ukrainian army "has interrupted the last, fourth power transmission line from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant." Volodymyr Rogov, a representative of infidels in the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region, said that it is now "physically impossible to transfer electricity to the right bank of the Dnipro." It is not true.

The security and defense forces of Ukraine do not shell the Zaporizhzhia NPP, as well as the power transmission lines near the station. On March 4, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe was seized by the Russian military, and since then they have been placing military equipment and ammunition there, shelling the nearby territory from its site. On August 26, Enerhoatom confirmed that the Zaporizhzhia NPP was again producing electricity for the needs of Ukraine after the first complete disconnection from the power grid in the history of the plant. And Ukrenerho announced that they had resumed the work of two trunk lines damaged by Russian troops, which ensured the operation of the station.

Recently, Russian propaganda spread the message that it is not profitable for Russia to shell the ZNPP, because it controls it and Kyiv is to blame for the attacks on nuclear infrastructure facilities.

Pro-Kremlin media write about it. Like, the United States forced the EU to abandon Russian energy sources, break off economic cooperation with Russia and close Europe to Russians. Allegedly, the main "US puppets" in Europe are the UK and "non-sovereign states" such as Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine. This "Russophobic coalition" also includes Poland, the Czech Republic and Finland. Like, Washington wants to keep the world under its control and is ready to sacrifice the well-being of European states for this.

The message was refuted by the fact checkers of the EUvsDISINFO project. The European Union is a sovereign association created on the voluntary initiative of the European nations, and it has its own, independent foreign policy. The US cannot influence his decision.

Economic sanctions, including sanctions in the energy sector, were introduced by the European Union as a reaction to Russia's aggressive behavior towards Ukraine. The first sanctions were introduced in 2014 after the illegal annexation of Crimea and part of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The European Union imposes sanctions against Russia on its own initiative, but also coordinates with partners, including the United States. After the full-scale invasion, sanctions pressure on Russia has increased significantly. The decision to ban Schenhen visas for Russians has also not yet been made.

Russian propaganda constantly promotes the message that supposedly economic sanctions harm the West more than Russia. Russian propaganda tried to blackmail Europe with the fact that allegedly cheap Russian gas can only be obtained in exchange for loyalty to Russia, or they convinced that the ban on Schenhen visas for Russians was discrimination on the basis of nationality.