Russian propagandists are circulating images of what is purportedly the new cover of Titanic magazine for December 2024. It depicts the head of the Presidential Office, Andrii Yermak, who is supposedly a footstool for the newly elected US President Donald Trump. The cover also contains captions: “Ukrainian leadership will be very useful to the new US president” and “Trump will appoint everyone to the right positions”.

The VoxCheck project reports that this is a fake cover. It shows issue number 4352. In fact, Titanic released a magazine with a different cover under this issue in December. It depicts the candidate for German chancellor, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz, with his wife Charlotte.

After all, all the covers that Titanic has ever created can be viewed on the magazine’s social media pages or on the magazine’s website in the Archive section. The cover with Trump and Yermak is missing there — an additional indication that the Russians created it themselves.

Also at the top right of the fake cover is the inscription “Internet-Aufgabe”. Presumably, the authors of the fake article wanted to use the word “ausgabe” (issue) instead of “aufgabe” (task). This mistake was also present on previous fake covers.

Titanic is a German satirical magazine that is published monthly and publishes mostly political cover images.

During the full-scale war, we recorded at least six fake Titanic magazine covers created by propagandists. A detailed analysis of each fabricated cover can be found on our website by typing the word “Titanic” into the search engine.

A purported December cover of TIME magazine is being circulated online, showing a nuclear mushroom cloud with the headline “Third World War First Nuclear War”. The post claims that unlike TIME, other outlets are intentionally stoking fear with headlines suggesting scenarios like Russia using nuclear weapons, NATO opening a second front, and the inevitability of World War III.

However, TIME magazine has not published an issue with such a cover. The official TIME website does not feature any such cover. As of the publication date of this clarification, TIME had announced only one December 2024 issue. Its cover features a photograph of Elon Musk, highlighting his achievements and potential future plans.

Additionally, a reverse image search on Google reveals that the nuclear mushroom cloud cover is primarily shared on pro-Russian Telegram channels. One such post links to a Telegram channel titled TIME | Finance. This is a closed, anonymous channel mimicking the visual style (name and logo) of the authentic TIME magazine.

Anonymous Telegram channels are spreading a photo of a school board with an announcement supposedly banning the combination of blue, red and white, as they make up the Russian flag. The photo states that violators will pay a fine.

But this is a fake announcement. No such order exists. Moreover, only Russian and pro-Russian sources are spreading this fake. There is no such news on official government pages, school resources or reliable media outlets.

The announcement states a ban on the use of these colors in drawings, clothing and stationery. However, there are many mistakes in the text:

— they wrote “connection”, although initially they used the correct phrase “combination of colors”;

— “in one origination” — most likely an incorrect derivation from the Russian phrase “in one composition”;

— the phrase “money funds” is incorrect in Ukrainian. Money and funds are synonyms and are not used together. This is an incorrect derivation from a Russian phrase.

Real official orders would not contain so many mistakes.

Russian propaganda resources are distributing a photo of an alleged instruction for schoolchildren in Ukraine, which explains how to properly kneel to greet a fallen Ukrainian defender from the front.

In fact, this instruction is fake, the Kherson region media outlet Vhoru (Up) reports. The reverse image search function on Google helped establish that the drawing from this instruction is being sold on several stock photo sites. The description of the drawing says that these are football players protesting on their knees against racism and police brutality. This is how they express support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

The propagandists also added an excerpt from the poem On the Shield by Facebook user Oksana Lesyk-Paduchak to the fake instruction. It was published on January 26, 2024. Presumably, an excerpt from this poem was placed on the instructions to give greater credibility to the fake photo and because of the poem’s mention of “Bandera’s flag”, one of the “favorite” words of Russian propaganda.

In the end, the photo of this instruction was not published in any reliable Ukrainian or foreign sources, but was only distributed in the pro-Russian segments of social media.

In Ukraine, people honor the memory of fallen soldiers by taking a knee. This is a voluntary gesture of respect. In many cultures, people also kneel to pray and ask for forgiveness. However, the creators of this fake put a negative connotation into this symbolic action, which on their photo instruction can be perceived as an act of submission, humiliation or weakness.

Earlier, we refuted the information that in Lviv, first-graders are forced to kneel to honor the memory of fallen defenders.

Russian Telegram channels have shared a photo from the alleged website of a Ukrainian funeral service that transports the dead around the world. Propagandists write that it has been operating since 2022 and claims “hundreds of satisfied customers”.

In fact, this information is not true, reports the VoxCheck project. Using the interface details in the screenshot that is being shared online, it was possible to find out that this is a screenshot of the website of the VIK funeral home. The company does provide services for transporting the deceased both to and from Ukraine.

However, the corresponding page of the site has been edited – the original talks about the complexity of transporting bodies to other countries and the willingness to help with any kinds of issues. There is no section on the site that says “hundreds of satisfied customers”. Also, according to propagandists, the bureau has been operating since 2022, although the official website states that the bureau has been operating since 2016.

Earlier, we analyzed fake news about a funeral company from Cherkasy issuing leaflets with the inscription “take care of your husband in advance”.

Russian propaganda Telegram channels are circulating photos allegedly depicting a rally in Kyiv involving the wives and children of Ukrainian military personnel participating in the Kursk operation. At the rally, children of Ukrainian soldiers are supposedly holding posters with slogans “Syrskyi, where is our dad?” and “Syrskyi, bring dad home!”.

This is actually fake news, writes the VoxCheck project. Thanks to Google’s reverse image search function, it was possible to find out that the photos distributed by propagandists are fabricated. In the original photos the inscriptions on the posters are different. The actual slogans were “For the Armed Forces of Ukraine!” and “Buy toys to help soldiers!”. One of the photos was taken in April 2022 in Odesa, the other in September 2022 in Kyiv. So in fact, the children from the photos did not rally against the AFU operation in the Kursk region, but collected funds to support Ukrainian fighters.

Earlier, we disproved the information that people in Zhytomyr had protested against Zelenskyi.

The pro-Russian segment of the network is spreading information that one of the Ukrainian cafes allegedly has a menu with different prices for civilians and military personnel. These menus are allegedly called “standard” and “for the military” respectively, with similar dishes and inflated prices for the second category. As “proof” of this, the propagandists add a corresponding photo.

However, this information is not true, as reported by the VoxCheck project.

Using Google's reverse image search function, it was possible to find out that this news is only being spread by Russian propaganda resources. The probable original source of the photo is the Russian Telegram channel Actually in Kherson. Neither the name of the establishment that allegedly has such a menu nor its address are known. Most likely, this is simply an edited photo or a staged shot.

Usually, such cases of discrimination against Ukrainian military personnel gain publicity in the media and social networks. However, no reliable Ukrainian publications reported on this incident.

Earlier, we refuted the information that some Ukrainian stores had introduced a 20% tax for Territorial recruitment and social support center employees.

Russian Telegram channels are distributing what appears to be a new cover of the Spanish magazine El Jueves. It features a cartoon of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, who shot himself because of Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, and the corresponding title: “World War III is postponed”.

However, this is a fake, writes the VoxCheck project. The cover of El Jueves magazine, distributed by propagandists, is not real. It shows issue number 2406. In November, the magazine published three weekly issues under this number (No. 2406-01, No. 2406-02, No. 2406-03). And none of the covers of these issues mention Ukraine, Zelenskyi, or World War III.

El Jueves is a Spanish satirical magazine published weekly and featuring caricatures on its covers.

During the full-scale war, we have documented at least eight fake El Jueves magazine covers created by propagandists. A detailed analysis of each fabricated cover can be found here.

A Russian Telegram channel is spreading information that Kyiv schools have begun replacing portraits of the current US President Joe Biden with portraits of the newly elected President Donald Trump. As “proof” of this, the propagandists are adding corresponding photos, allegedly taken in one of the Kyiv schools.

In fact, this information is not true, the VoxCheck project reports. The photos distributed by Russian propagandists are likely staged. There is no indication that they did anything in the Ukrainian school. It is even more surprising that on the stand dedicated to Britain, among the portraits of Elizabeth II and William Shakespeare, they placed photos of the presidents of the USA and Ukraine. In the end, it was possible to find out that these images were distributed exclusively in the pro-Russian segment of the network, which gives additional grounds to believe that this is a fake.

In Ukraine, the practice of placing portraits of presidents in school classrooms is not widespread. Back in 2016, the then Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Serhii Kvit, declared that it was unacceptable to place portraits of ministers and other civil servants in educational institutions. The Ministry of Education and Science recommended, first of all, to place state symbols, portraits of historical figures or graduates that educational institutions are proud of.

Earlier, we analyzed the lie that Trump was added to the “Peacemaker” database.

The social network X spread information that the people's deputy Danylo Hetmantsev said: “We are currently studying the experience of other countries in the field of taxation for pet owners. It doesn't matter if it is a dog, cat, parrot, gopher or any other pet, it must have mandatory insurance and a fixed tax on the owner”.

In fact, this quote is fake, as the VoxCheck project writes. There is no such information in the Ukrainian media or in the social networks of MP Hetmantsev. Hetmantsev's quote exists only in one image, which was distributed several times by users on the network, but there is no such text separately from the image. These words, which are attributed to the MP, were published on the network back in August 2024, but then there were much fewer such messages, VoxCheck adds.

Also, when creating this quote, the fakers made several mistakes. In particular, in the word "taxation", instead of the second letter “a” they wrote “o”. Also, it is likely that the text was first written in Russian, and then translated into Ukrainian. This is evidenced by the fact that the word “possessor” is more formal, it is often used in a figurative sense - for example, the owner of life. A person who has property or animals is correctly called an “owner”, and not a “possessor”. So it would be correct to say "the owner of pets".

We do not have mandatory registration of pets and especially taxation in this area. The procedure for insuring pets at the state level has not been implemented either. Animal owners can do this in private companies.

Earlier, we analyzed the Russian message that “Ukrainians are Nazis because they choose big dogs”.

Russian propaganda sources are distributing a fake advertising flyer allegedly from the funeral and ritual service Traur. The youth of Kyiv offer to “lie in a real coffin” for 60 minutes, in particular, to “overcome the fear of death”. In addition, the fakers noted the availability of a 50% discount for “young people of draft age”.

“The clients are indicated absolutely specifically - these are those who will have to go to the front line in time. And with a high probability, they will return from there not in a fake coffin, but in a real one”, the Kremlin publication writes.

As reported by StopFake, the owner of the funeral and ritual service Traur denied the information about providing such services and about making an advertising flyer. This is another Russian fake aimed at demoralizing the population of Ukraine during a full-scale war. Moreover, the propagandists were most likely inspired by the recent news from Japan, where a funeral home really does provide the service of “lying in a coffin” to think about life and death.

Russian Telegram channels and social media users are spreading information that Ukrainian military personnel are allegedly being removed from databases so that the families of the deceased do not receive payments. As “evidence”, a video is shown in which a woman, introducing herself as the wife of the deceased, claims that her husband is not on the lists. However, she does not name names, military units or other details. StopFake writes about this.

The photo that the woman is holding in her hands shows Andrii Kainara, a defender of Azovstal who was held captive and later returned to service. The organization that deals with his brigade confirmed his death in battle in September 2023, noting that Kainara did not have a wife, only a sister. The video is recognized as a fake aimed at discrediting Ukraine and its military.

The purpose of spreading this disinformation is to undermine the trust of Ukrainian citizens in state institutions, in particular, in the Armed Forces and government agencies. The propaganda seeks to create the impression that the state allegedly does not fulfill its obligations to the families of the fallen soldiers, which can sow despondency and demoralization among the population. This fake is also aimed at discrediting the Ukrainian army before the international community, demonstrating its alleged incompetence or indifference to its own soldiers and their families.

Russian propaganda Telegram channels claim that the cover of the German satirical magazine Titanic for November 2024 allegedly depicts a US Air Force plane that Ukrainians are clinging to. And the caption on the cover is supposedly: “The US withdrawal from Ukraine will remind us of something”. As proof, Russian propagandists add a corresponding photo.

However, in fact, this is a fake cover of the Titanic issue for November, as reported by the VoxCheck project. The original cover for this month is posted on the official website of the magazine - it looks different and does not concern Ukraine.

Also, at the top right on the fake cover there is the inscription “Internet-Aufgabe”. Probably, the authors of the fake article wanted to use the word “ausgabe” (issue) instead of “aufgabe” (task).

Titanic is a German satirical magazine that comes out monthly and features mostly politically themed covers.

During the full-scale war, we have documented at least five fake Titanic magazine covers created by propagandists. A detailed analysis of each fabricated cover can be found here.

Propagandists are spreading a photo of a woman in Ukrainian national dress on social networks, claiming that she is supposedly the grandmother of Russian TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak. The publications state that the woman was born in the village of Drozdni between Lutsk and Kovel, adding her life story. However, this is not true.

This is what StopFake writes about. The project's specialists found out that the photo actually shows the grandmother of Ukrainian journalist Anton Naumliuk of the “Graty” (Bars) publication, who spoke in detail about her biography. The photo was first distributed in 2017 for the family archive.

Information about the Sobchak family is available in open sources. Her paternal grandmother, Nadiia Andriivna, was Polish and lived in Tashkent. On the maternal side, Valentyna Volodymyrivna Narusova, originally from Leningrad, lived in Briansk. Although her family's Ukrainian roots are sometimes mentioned, no confirmation of a connection with the woman in the photo has been found.

Russian sources are spreading information that, as part of a collaboration between Coca-Cola and the International Committee of the Red Cross, dozens of mobile morgues in the standard Coca-Cola red and white colors and the coloring of the “favorite Ukrainian embroidered shirt, so that it would be pleasant to lie there” were delivered to the city of Sumy. As proof of this, the propagandists add a photo showing mobile containers with what appears to be the English inscription “Mobile Morgue”.

However, this is another fake of Russian propaganda, the Center for Countering Disinformation reports. The mobile containers that the propagandists write about are mobile boiler houses that the Ukrainian Red Cross, in cooperation with the Coca-Cola company, delivers to local communities to support the population of Ukraine. Thus, in 45 mobile boiler houses that were provided to local communities last year, another 60 will be delivered during the 2024 heating season.

In addition, there is no sign “Mobile Morgue” on the boiler houses – it was superimposed on the photo by propagandists, replacing the original sign “Mobile boiler house”.

Earlier, we recorded a fake from the Russians that mobile crematoriums were being created in Ukrainian TRO brigades.

Russian propaganda sources are distributing a photo of a fake announcement about the evacuation of stray dogs in Sumy. The reason given is the “threat of North Korean occupiers”.

However, the Sumy City Council did not publish such information either on the website or in social networks. In addition, the ad does not contain any information about the organization that could be involved in the evacuation of dogs. As for the contacts where they advised to contact, there is a blurred QR code for a bot on Telegram, a hotline for the Sumy City Council and the Cabinet of Ministers. So the ad is a fake, and VoxCheck reports this.

In Sumy, no evacuation was announced for either citizens or dogs. Thus, Russian propagandists are trying to sow panic due to the possible direct entry of North Korea into the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Read on Censor.NET: Dogs are allegedly being mobilized in Ukraine.

Anonymous propaganda Telegram channels are actively distributing an ad about a “50% discount” on one boot for veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a disability allegedly established by Ukrainian sellers. However, this is fiction, and the photo with the ad has been edited.

This is what experts at the Center for Countering Disinformation say. They note that this type of disinformation is aimed at manipulating citizens' emotions in order to cause indignation and despondency among Ukrainians, especially among those who actively support the military and help the wounded. Through targeted fakes, Russian propagandists are trying to portray Ukrainian society as not appreciating its heroes, as absolutely false and manipulative.

Such propaganda can also sow discouragement among international partners providing financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Propaganda seeks to convince both external and internal audiences that support for veterans is weak and their needs are ignored. This not only undermines unity within the country, but can negatively affect Ukraine’s reputation in the world. At the same time, such manipulations reinforce stereotypes, portraying Ukraine as a country that allegedly despises its heroes, which in a war situation is a dangerous tool for psychological influence on society.

Russian propaganda telegram channels are distributing a photo of an ad pasted to a pole with information for Ukrainians about the possibility of earning extra money in Georgia. The poster promises 100 euros for one participation in a rally, and as much as 150 euros for people with a flag. The ad also says that even men are helped to leave Ukraine. Propagandists comment on the poster, writing that these are supposedly Ukraine's priorities today: “Not to pull your country out of the mud, but to plunge others deeper into the same mud”.

In fact, such a poster does not exist - it was created using graphic editing and superimposed on a photo. This was found out thanks to the reverse image search function from Google. So, the original photo was first posted online in 2021 on the regional resource of the city of Rivne 0362.ua, and it shows a completely different poster - an announcement of a joint concert of DOROFEEVA and Dance Way, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the modern dance studio.

In addition, the original image has been edited in other places. For example, a different gate and the roof of the building located in the back right of the photo are noticeable.

This fake photo is a reaction of Russians to the protests in Georgia, which began after the parliamentary elections in this country. Georgians took to the streets to express their disagreement with the official election results. Russian propaganda did not miss the opportunity to take advantage of the unstable situation in both countries - both in Ukraine and in Georgia, and issued such a primitive fake in order to claim that the protests in Georgia were paid for and decreed.

Propaganda Telegram channels are spreading the message that Ukrainian soldiers from the 61st Separate Mechanized Brigade are “committing atrocities” against civilians in Kursk and “bragging” about photographs of the tortured on the Internet.

But in fact, the original publication talks about Russian atrocities in one of the villages that was liberated by the fighters of the 61st Separate Mechanized Brigade. To create a fake, the real message was edited.

In fact, the original publication is a message from October 13, 2024 on the Facebook page of the educational project of the analytical center CASE Ukraine “The Price of the State”. The description of the project states that it explains to Ukrainians “how much the state costs them and what their taxes are spent on”.

The message noted that the photo shows the aftermath of Russian crimes in one of the liberated villages (the location is not specified). The 61st Separate Mechanized Brigade took control of this settlement. Its fighter took a photo of the dead tortured by the Russians. The post then included a gathering for the brigade. There is no mention of the Kursk region in the text. The Russians changed the original publication.

Russian Telegram channels are distributing photos and videos from various places in Kyiv, where posters with the words “Putin will come and restore order” were allegedly posted. The cards were allegedly posted for the Russian dictator's birthday on October 7, 2024.

But the fakers took a photo of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra from an article in a Ukrainian media outlet and added Putin's posters to it in a photo editor. Other photos are distributed exclusively by Russian channels. After all, a reverse Google search showed that the photo with the flag, which allegedly has a poster of Putin pasted on it, was taken from a 2023 article by the Ukrainian media outlet Texty.org.ua. The article is dedicated to the work of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra reserve during the war.

The locations in other photographs of Russians cannot be identified. There is no confirmation that such postcards ever appeared in Kyiv or Ukraine as a whole. If they were really noticed in Kyiv, this would lead to a public outcry and publications would appear on Telegram channels or in the media. Meanwhile, the “news” is spread exclusively by Russian and pro-Russian sources. In this way, they are trying to show that Putin is “awaited” in Ukraine and is not perceived as an aggressor.

A photo of graffiti allegedly in Washington, allegedly made for the Reuters news agency, is being circulated online. It shows two rats with Israeli and Ukrainian flags “fighting” for an American dollar.

But this is a fake photo. The photo with graffiti was compiled. In fact, checking the photo in a special FotoForensics tool showed that the image was probably edited. Moreover, Reuters did not publish such a photo on its official website, as well as on X, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. Also on the building depicted in the fake, a banner of the American commercial real estate agency in Los Angeles - illi Commercial Real Estate is visible.

Our colleagues, fact-checkers of VoxCheck, checked the photos of all properties available for rent and sale on the official website of illi Commercial Real Estate and did not find a single property similar to the fake. In addition, the fakers claim that the photos were taken in Washington. However, there are no properties available for purchase/rent in Washington on the map of properties.

We have documented fakes many times, whether they involve fake graffiti, foreign magazine covers/newspaper columns, or advertising videos. In this way, propagandists aim to show that their rhetoric (for example, that Zelenskyi is hated by the whole world) is also repeated in the West. This may make readers think that the public is really unhappy with Ukraine. And especially when the authors use elements of popular culture, implying that people are laughing at the situation in Ukraine and that the Ukrainian agenda is a reason for Europe to laugh.

For example, we recently reported that anonymous people were spreading a fake story from the supposedly French publication Le Figaro, which spoke of a “Ukrainian refugee killer”.

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.

Russian sources are distributing a photo of a homemade wooden cross and a plaque attached to it. It says: “Here lie the unidentified remains of a defender of Ukraine, No. 214350”. “And how many of these are there throughout the country?”, this is how Russians are commenting on the image of the alleged burial of an unknown Ukrainian soldier who died during the fighting. In addition, they draw attention to the lack of flowers on the grave - this is supposed to indicate a lack of respect on the part of society for Ukrainian soldiers who give their lives in the war.

However, in reality, this photo is fake. This is reported in the StopFake project. Firstly, the parts of the sentence on the sign do not agree with each other - “here rest (instead of “rest”) the unidentified remains of a defender”. Secondly, despite the fact that the word “unidentified” is appropriate in this context, in real burials of unknown soldiers, it is customary to use the phrase “temporarily unidentified” to emphasize that the identification of the soldier and the search for his relatives are ongoing. In particular, this can be seen in the photo of the corresponding burials of 2015 in Dnipro.

Additionally, using the Forensically tool, StopFake journalists found that the propagandists had changed the inscription on the cross in a photo editor. The Error Level Analysis function showed that in the image of the area, the signs without text look significantly darker, while in the unedited photo, flat surfaces and uniform textures should have the same color.

Finally, in cases where it is not possible to immediately identify the deceased soldier, the body is kept in the morgue for a certain period of time, DNA material is collected from it (to continue identifying the soldier and searching for his relatives), and then buried with military honors. When the deceased is identified, his relatives have the right to rebury the body.

The Black Tulip humanitarian mission also takes care of the dignified burial of fallen Ukrainian soldiers. The search group returns home the bodies of soldiers that cannot be immediately removed from the battlefield due to intense fighting or mining. Accordingly, the propaganda message about the careless burial of Ukrainian soldiers does not correspond to reality.

Earlier, we analyzed a fake about the alleged theft of personal belongings of a Ukrainian fighter at his funeral.

Photos of city lights are being distributed in the Russian segment of the Internet, which depict a soldier with two flags flying above him: the national flag of Ukraine and the flag of the LGBTQ+ community. The response advertising is allegedly accompanied by the slogan “We have something to protect”. Some of the messages distributed by the propagandists claim that the city lights were placed all over Kyiv, while other publications write that this advertising was placed in Sumy.

However, in reality, such advertising does not exist in Kyiv, Sumy or any other city in Ukraine. This is a photo fake. Having paid attention to the details in the photo, in particular, to the building in the right corner in one of the photos, fact-checkers from the Bez Brekhi (Without Lies) project noticed that this building is a residential building for workers of the M. V. Frunze Machine-Building Plant. In reality, a completely different city light is located near this building - not with an advertisement for service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but a memorial one - dedicated to the deceased soldier from the Sumy region, Serhii Myronchenko.

Earlier, we refuted the information that KharkivPride allegedly created an advertising campaign “Better a gay Ukrainian soldier than a straight draft dodger”.

Pro-Russian Telegram channels are spreading photos of the board game “Try to explain”, which is sold in Ukraine. In it, players are asked to explain words on cards, in particular “Moskal (Russian) in captivity” and “deoccupation”.

However, in reality, this is a fake, as reported by the VoxCheck project. Using Google's reverse image search function, it was possible to find out that when creating the fake, the propagandists used the visual design of the Russian board game “Say if you can”. After all, the images of the characters in the fake game completely match the original cover. It is likely that the fakers printed the box with the fake game using the illustration of the real game.

Although there are indeed games called “Try to Explain” or other similar board games sold in Ukraine, there are no games with such visual design.

This is not the first fake concerning board games. For example, we previously analyzed how propagandists manipulated the board game “Risk” for their own interests.