An edited screenshot of what is allegedly a post by Ivanka Trump on X (Twitter) is being actively circulated on social media. In it, she supposedly describes a “Ukrainian Halloween”, claiming that TCC employees dressed as ghosts knock on doors, demand a $500 bribe, or take men to the front. The “post” is accompanied by a (supposedly humorous) video showing a detention.

Analysts from the VoxCheck project drew attention to this manipulation.

This is a classic manipulation.

The original post was published not on Ivanka Trump’s official account (@IvankaTrump), but on a fan page whose description clearly states: “This is a fan account, not affiliated with Ivanka Trump”.

Propagandists deliberately cropped the screenshot to hide this disclaimer and present the fake as authentic.

There is no such post on Ivanka Trump’s official account (11+ million followers, verified), and there never has been one. She does not comment on mobilization issues in Ukraine.

The video itself is staged and was filmed in occupied Donetsk.

Reverse image searches in Yandex and an analysis of the metadata show that the man in the video is Mykola Huseinov, an actor from the so-called “Donetsk Republican Youth Theater” (on occupied territory). This is a typical Russian staged production, created for propaganda outlets.

The purpose of such disinformation drops is to create an atmosphere of fear, chaos, and injustice around the TCC, so that men avoid mobilization, go into hiding, or even flee abroad. Fakes about “manhunts”, bribes, or a “TCC Halloween” are meant to demoralize society, fuel anti-government sentiment, and complicate recruitment into the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In 2013, a quote allegedly said by Donald Trump spread on social media: “A government shutdown is the result of a lack of presidential leadership. Problems start at the top, and they have to be solved at the top. A shutdown means the president is weak”. This statement regained popularity during the U.S. government shutdown in 2025, when internet users recalled that Trump – who was president at the time – had supposedly said this himself. However, this claim is not entirely accurate. Snopes reported on this.

As fact-checkers found, only the second part of the quote – “Problems start at the top, and they have to be solved at the top” – genuinely belongs to Trump. He said it during an appearance on the TV program Fox & Friends on September 30, 2013, when Barack Obama was president and the country was preparing for a possible government shutdown. At the time, Trump argued that it was the president’s responsibility to overcome political crises and demonstrate leadership. The rest of the phrases circulating on social media were never spoken by him, although their general meaning aligns with his position during that period.

Snopes analyzed archives from Bing, Google, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo, as well as posts on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Threads, but found no evidence that Trump ever literally said phrases about a “weak president” or a “lack of leadership”. The earliest appearances of these words date back only to 2018, during another government shutdown that occurred while Trump himself was president. This suggests that the quote was assembled from his real statements and later spread as a generalized version of his views.

Fact-checkers also note that back in 2011, during an appearance on the Today show, Trump said that in the event of a shutdown, “the blame falls on the president, because he is the one who has to bring everyone together and pass a budget”. In his Twitter posts from the same period, he repeatedly criticized Barack Obama, calling him “weak” and holding him responsible for political conflicts in Washington.

A fake is being circulated on social media claiming that the Nobel Committee has allegedly permanently disqualified Donald Trump from all future awards because of his decision to rename the U.S. Department of Defense as the “Department of War”. The claim was debunked by Indian fact-checkers from the DigitEye India project.

Posts containing this claim are accompanied by an image resembling a press release from the Associated Press, dated 25 September 2025. The fake “document” states that the Nobel Committee in Stockholm allegedly described Trump’s actions as a “serious violation of historical dignity and semantic etiquette”. In reality, no official announcement of this kind was made by either the Nobel Committee or the Associated Press.

DigitEye India’s verification showed that the image is fabricated. It contains fictitious contact details, including the name “Hanz Zeemer” and the domain “swisstimes.org”, which have no connection to the Nobel Committee or the Associated Press. In addition, the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony takes place in Oslo, not Stockholm, as stated in the fake “press release”.

There are also no mentions of Donald Trump’s disqualification on the official Nobel Prize website, where all press releases and announcements are published openly. The Committee also reminds that the nomination process is entirely confidential and is not disclosed for at least 50 years after submission.

Moreover, the author of the original post on the social network X admitted that the message was a joke, but it quickly began circulating as “breaking news”.

Therefore, the information about Donald Trump being disqualified from future Nobel Prizes is completely fabricated.

Russian propaganda Telegram channels are spreading the false claim that panic allegedly erupted in Kyiv because Trump did not mention Ukraine in his inaugural speech on January 20. However, this is a manipulation, as pointed out by experts from the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security. The absence of any mention of Ukraine in the speech does not indicate Trump's ‘indifference’ - the 47th president of the United States clearly focused on issues directly related to the United States.

Former Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin emphasized in an interview with Radio NV that there is no need to create panic over the fact that Ukraine was not mentioned in Trump's speech. The speech was centered around the Make America Great Again  concept, and Trump primarily spoke about the United States.

Moreover, during discussions with journalists, Trump confirmed his willingness to engage in talks with both Zelenskyi and Putin to achieve peace and end the war. “We are in touch with Zelenskyi, and we will soon speak with President Putin. We'll see how things unfold”, said the U.S. president.

Additionally, Trump's appointment of retired General Keith Kellogg as Special Representative for Ukraine indicates that the new administration will pay attention to this issue. In early January, Kellogg stated that he intended to find a solution to end the full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine within 100 days from the inauguration.

This manipulative information is being spread by Russian propaganda to create a sense of Ukraine's isolation and to give the impression that the U.S. is indifferent or dismissive toward Ukraine. Such narratives are aimed at sowing doubts in the public regarding Western partners' support for Ukraine.

Pro-Russian Telegram channels are distributing a video report allegedly created by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). The report claims that after Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, Ukrainian soldiers began surrendering eight times more often than before. In turn, Euronews editor-in-chief Klaus Strunz allegedly called this a “completely natural” development. They say that now it has become clear to everyone that Ukraine is doomed, so the military is thinking about how to save their own lives.

However, this video is fabricated, writes the StopFake project. ISW did not publish such a video or similar statistics on its website or on its social media pages. There are no similar reports in any reliable Western media, including Euronews. The editor-in-chief of this broadcaster, Strunz, did express support for Trump on his social media pages, but did not comment on the potential consequences for Ukraine after the newly elected US president takes office, nor on reports of mass surrender of Ukrainian troops. After all, this “news” is false.

Therefore, there is no independent and verified data on how many Ukrainian soldiers actually surrender, since such statistics are only available from the Russian side, which does not inspire confidence.

With this fake, propagandists are trying to assert that with Trump coming to power in the United States, Ukraine will not receive any critical financial and military support from this state and, in general, a “complete catastrophe” awaits Ukrainians.

Earlier, the Russians had already distributed a fabricated video on behalf of ISW. Thus, earlier we recorded a fake video about how two out of ten Ukrainians died during meetings with representatives of the Territorial recruitment and social support centers.

Pro-Russian resources are spreading information that the newly elected US President Donald Trump has allegedly been added to the Myrotvorets database. As “proof”, the propagandists are adding a corresponding screenshot.

However, this is a fake photo, the VoxCheck project writes. A search on the Myrotvorets website showed that Trump is not in the database of the same name. Also, the fake screenshot shows a different design from the original. For example, the real emblem of the official website is depicted as the continents of the world, and not just a map of Ukraine. The original website's “header” is also a darker shade of blue, as well as sidebars with a counter of the days of the Russian-Ukrainian war and information about other community projects.

The official Myrotvorets website reported that this is not the first time that Russians have created fake screenshots of the site, in particular about Trump, and passed them off as real. For example, we previously recorded disinformation that Polish President Andrzej Duda was added to the Myrotvorets database.

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