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