The Russians are distributing a video report on behalf of the American publication The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which states that the newly elected US Vice President J.D. Vance allegedly twice - on November 6 and 7 - refused to speak to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrii Yermak on the phone.

However, this video is fabricated. This is reported in the StopFake project. First of all, the WSJ did not publish such a video either on its website or on social networks (X, Facebook, YouTube). In addition, the video has obvious errors indicating its falsity. For example, J.D. Vance is called Vice President, although today the politician has not yet taken office and has the status of Vice President-elect of the United States. The current Vice President of the United States is Kamala Harris.

The video also quotes “political scientist” Dina Titus as saying that “the vice president has more important tasks now than to listen to Zelenskyi's Victory Plan once again”. While Titus could indeed comment on current political events, she is not a “political scientist” but a member of the US House of Representatives from Nevada. In the end, StopFake journalists were unable to find any confirmation that Titus actually made such a statement.

Let us recall that on November 8, 2024, it became known about a telephone conversation between the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi and the newly elected President of the United States Donald Trump.

Earlier, we analyzed the Russian fake news that Yermak called Macron a hypocritical politician for wanting to cut aid to Ukraine.

A supposed advertisement from the Ukrainian Women's Watch organization is being distributed in the pro-Russian segment of social networks, which talks about military training courses for women. The “advertising banner” shows a woman in a military uniform and in the background is a photo of a monkey sitting behind the wheel of a car. And the slogan is: “Women's two-week military assistance courses - even a macaque can be taught to drive!”

However, this advertisement is not real. We checked the image from the Telegram channel using a special tool FotoForensics, which establishes the fact of interference in the image. For example, Photoshop or other photo or video editors. Therefore, it was possible to establish that the photo distributed by the propagandists contains signs of editing. Moreover, no Ukrainian media published such an advertisement. Just like on the organization's website, we did not find any information about such an advertisement.

Women in armed conflicts are one of the most vulnerable social groups. Some researchers call Russian aggression a war for gender order, a gendered confrontation, because Moscow is fighting for so-called traditional values, which imply the triumph of patriarchal practices and the leveling of gender equality. Hostile propagandists depicts a dissolute and full of feminists, prostitutes and the emasculation of the “true male essence”. Ukraine, according to propagandists, was once part of the famous “Russian Gothic”, but, having become Europeanized, adopted the destructive practices of gender equality.

Read our study on the Russian dimension of Russian misogyny: The shell of a femina with black content. How Russian propaganda is trying to discredit Ukrainian women.

A video with the logo of the Polish newspaper Fakt is being distributed in Russian Telegram channels. It claims that the cousin of Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Dmytro Klimenkov ordered an elite car for the 777 Hypercar race in Poland for €7 million.

But the Polish edition of Fakt did not publish such a news story. This video is not on the official website of the Polish edition of Fakt, nor on its pages on Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok and YouTube. Moreover, the newspaper did not publish any news about the 777 Hypercar at all - a search by keywords did not bring any results.

Ukrainian media have no news about the purchase, although corruption scandals usually receive publicity in society. This video is published only on Russian and pro-Russian resources.

The so-called investigations into the property of Ukrainian officials are turning into a systematic campaign to discredit them. In this way, propagandists or Moscow's protégés seek to portray Ukraine as a cradle of corruption schemes, which in the future may harm Ukraine's path to European integration. After all, the fight against corruption and its reduction is one of the main tasks of the state on the path to the European Union.

Here are some more cases that concerned the “taking possession” of real estate using “stolen funds”: how Zelenskyi allegedly bought the villa of Hitler’s propaganda minister Goebbels for 8 million euros; or how Zelenskyi’s mother-in-law bought a villa on the coast of Egypt using Western humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

A video is being circulated online in which a woman complains about a note in her son's diary: “Dress the children warmly! There is no heating at school!” The woman is outraged that she donated money for a generator, but the school still has no heating.

But it's fake. The video is probably a decree. In a number of cities, schools are already heated, and there is no need for generators yet, since there are no power outages.

Traditionally, the heating season in Ukraine starts in mid-October. However, the start of connecting heat in different cities may differ. The actual start date depends on weather conditions, as well as the readiness of the infrastructure. In particular, the heating period begins if the air temperature for 3 days is on average +8 degrees and below. However, social facilities, in particular educational institutions, are usually connected to heat earlier than residential buildings.

For example, by the end of October, heating of schools in a number of cities had already begun. In particular, in Kyiv, Lviv, Uzhhorod, Ternopil, Vinnytsia and other cities.

By spreading such a message, propagandists want to feed the narrative that Ukraine is allegedly uninhabitable due to the lack of electricity, high prices for utilities; or due to various diseases, pandemics that are spreading exclusively in Ukraine due to the war. In this way, the authors want to sow panic among Ukrainians in order to destabilize the mood and create a feeling that “nothing will change”.

Russian propaganda sources are distributing a fake video as if it were from the environmental organization Greenpeace. It talks about the pollution of the Dnipro, Dunai, and Southern Buh with “cadaveric poison” due to an alleged 12-fold increase in the number of burials since the start of the full-scale invasion. The video also notes “a potential threat to neighboring countries, primarily Poland and Romania”.

“Since 2022, Ukrainian cemeteries have begun burying soldiers who died in the conflict with Russia. Due to the “significant number of daily burials”, cemetery administrations have stopped observing sanitary standards”, they wrote in the fake video.

In fact, the information is false, and Greenpeace did not distribute such a video. As reported by StopFake, citing Ukrainian environmental safety expert Maksym Soroka, the term “cadaveric poison”, in the scientific community - “ptomaines”, is outdated and creates a false idea about the nature of this substance. You can get poisoned if, for example, you drink such water only in “large volumes”. Moreover, tap water is purified and disinfected before it goes directly to users. Therefore, botulism or staphylococcus bacteria, which reservoirs can be contaminated with, do not pose a threat to health in case of indirect consumption.

Thus, propagandists frighten Ukrainians with “inevitable consequences”, in particular for the environment, if the war continues. That is, they do everything to sow the idea, for example, of the need for negotiations with Russia. They explain this by saying that this is to stop the alleged hundreds of thousands of losses at the front. Or, so that “at least some conditions remain” for a safe life in Ukraine in the future.

Propagandists are spreading information in the media and social networks that a relative of the singer Shakira died in the Kursk region, fighting in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As evidence, they are spreading a video published by the Colombian publication El Espectador, which says that Shakira's relative joined the International Legion and allegedly died fighting in Ukraine. However, this is a fake.

Ukrinform writes about this. Their fact checkers found out that there is no such news on the official El Espectador resources, and their materials are generally published in Spanish, not in English, as stated in the fake video.

This fake is part of a larger disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Ukrainian army on the international stage by creating negative associations across cultures. As Latin America becomes an increasingly important political region for Russia, the spread of such fakes attempts to undermine support for Ukraine among Latin American communities by using recognizable names and absurd details to attract attention and sensationalism.

A number of propaganda Telegram channels are distributing a manipulative animated video, which illustrates a conversation between a boy and a personified school board and the sun (cartoon characters). The boy asks them why his father was forcibly taken away by the Territorial center of recruitment and social support workers, to which the school board replies that they were doing their duty, and that it was wrong that the boy's father “did not want to go”. After this, the sun joins the conversation and continues to promote manipulative rhetoric.

However, some words and phrases used in the cartoon exposed the propagandists. For example, the video contains the phrase “they don't choose a duty”, which is a tracing of the Russian "they don't choose an obligation". In addition, the cartoon contains a number of other manipulative cliches inherent in Russian propaganda: “either you fulfill your duty, or you are a coward and a traitor”; “if he didn't leave on his own, then they did the right thing by taking him away”.

Also, having taken a screenshot of the video, using the reverse image search function from Google, it was possible to find out that on the YouTube platform there is a training video with a similar background as in the fake cartoon, about how to create animated videos. That is, most likely, the propagandists used this video tutorial to create a fake cartoon about the Territorial center of recruitment and social support workers.

After all, this animated video is being distributed primarily in the pro-Russian segment of the Internet, which gives additional grounds to believe that it is a fake.

Earlier, we recorded a Russian fake about a cartoon “Ukrainian piglets” being shown in EU countries.

Russian propaganda sources are distributing a video produced by the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF). It claims that law enforcement agencies are massively detaining and harshly interrogating Ukrainian citizens who contact Russian phone numbers, or even for searching the Internet in Russian. Thus, allegedly, in Sumy alone, as of early October, 56 criminal cases for collaborationism were opened, and 27 people arrested on such charges died from torture.

In fact, RSF did not release such a video, as reported by fact-checkers from the StopFake project. They contacted the head of the organization's investigations department, Arnaud Froger, who denied that RSF had published such material.

“This is the third time in recent months that pro-Kremlin social media accounts have used the RSF brand and staff to lend credibility to their propaganda. They use Western media or NGOs like RSF to add value to their narrative and bridge the trust gap that their own propaganda outlets suffer from. With this disinformation, Russia and its affiliated trolls manipulate what is at the heart of every relationship: trust” , Froger commented.

Two things are also indicative. Firstly, the footage of Frozhet's face in the propaganda video is indeed taken from a video in which RSF debunks another Russian propaganda story - about the mass use of Nazi symbols by Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk. We also recorded this disinformation in one of our previous materials.

Secondly, despite the fact that the fake video clip talks about 26 people allegedly dying from torture, the text of the propaganda publications for some reason already mentions 12 dead people – the propagandists are confused in their own fabrications.

After all, communication with relatives in Russia and Russian-language queries on the Internet are legal and are not regulated in any way by Ukrainian legislation.

Russian state media recently reported that snipers trained in Ukraine had been spotted in Tbilisi, intending to provoke protests. This was accompanied by RT footage of people in military uniforms, allegedly with Ukrainian and Georgian patches, seen among the protesters. Russian media used the video to support the claim that Ukraine was involved in fomenting unrest in Georgia.

After an investigation, MythDetector identified these people as Georgian tourists with no military ties. One of them, Lasha Katsiashvili, explained that he and his friends regularly attend public gatherings and protests in camping gear for convenience. In addition, the patches with the Ukrainian and Georgian flags on their clothes were purchased in Tbilisi and distributed among local outdoor enthusiasts.

This attempt to label Georgian tourists as “Ukrainian snipers” fits into a larger pattern of Kremlin propaganda alleging Ukrainian interference in Georgia’s internal affairs. Similar narratives have emerged falsely claiming that Ukrainians travel to Georgia to incite political unrest, particularly during election campaigns. Recently, a Ukrainian MP who visited Georgia as an election observer was also portrayed as one of the leaders of “professional protesters”. The aim of the disinformation strategy is to create suspicion of foreign influence, particularly Ukrainian, on Georgian politics to support pro-Russian narratives.

Russian sources have distributed a video on behalf of United24, which says that the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andrii Yermak, allegedly called French President Emmanuel Macron a “hypocritical politician” for his “demand” to reduce the G7 loan to Ukraine to $20 billion instead of the expected $50 billion. In an interview with the 1+1 channel, Yermak also allegedly asked an outrageous rhetorical question: “Back in April, Macron was ready to send his army to help us, and now he wants to reduce the amount of aid?”

However, this information is not true. This is reported in the StopFake project. The video was fabricated by propagandists - United24 did not publish such news either on their website or in their social networks. Moreover, United24 is a state platform launched to consolidate international support for Ukraine, so it is very unlikely that insults against the leaders of allied states could appear on the platform.

Secondly, the interview with the 1+1 channel, where Yermak allegedly made the corresponding statement, does not exist at all. The last time the head of the Presidential Office gave an interview on this channel was three years ago, when he became a guest of the VIP with Nataliia Mosiichuk program. In the end, the claim that Macron allegedly demands to reduce the amount of the loan to Ukraine is fake. In fact, the President of France, together with the US government, was one of the initiators of the program, according to which the G7 countries will transfer a loan of $50 million to Ukraine, using the proceeds from the frozen assets of the Central Bank of Russia in Europe worth $325 billion. The funds should arrive in Ukraine by the end of 2025. The motivation for approving this loan was Donald Trump's statements that if he wins the presidential election, he will stop providing financing to Ukraine. Thus, the G7 program is designed to ensure a regular flow of aid to Ukraine, regardless of the decisions of the next leader or the head of the United States.

Earlier we analyzed the Russian message that Yermak was seeking to escalate the war.

Propagandists are actively distributing video materials from Ukrainian sources on anonymous Telegram channels, in particular, a video of Ukrainian servicemen of the 15th Brigade of the NGU Kara-Dag, where they evacuate the wounded from the combat zone under fire. Russian propaganda presents this video as evidence of the alleged retreat of Ukrainian troops from Selydove, disseminating information about the transfer of the city under Russian control. However, this is not true.

This was indicated by the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security. Its specialists emphasize that, according to the representative of the NGU Ruslan Muzychuk, Selydove remains under the control of Ukrainian forces. At the same time, Ukrainian units are holding back Russian attempts to advance from the north and east. Such information leaks are aimed at demoralizing the Ukrainian military and creating a false picture of the situation in order to sow doubts among the population and undermine confidence in Ukraine's defense efforts.

Such disinformation campaigns are also part of a broader Kremlin strategy that includes discrediting the Ukrainian military and distorting the real situation on the front lines, trying to justify Russian aggression as “protection” of civilians.

The Citytv publication is distributing a video online, which claims that the Colombian government wants to restrict the showing of videos from Ukraine on TikTok. They decided to resort to such an event because “young people, having watched enough Ukrainian videos, think that war is a romantic event and go to war”.

But Citytv did not publish the video, and some elements in the video indicate a forgery. Colombian authorities have not publicly announced their intention to restrict the showing of videos from Ukraine on TikTok.

Citytv is a Colombian TV channel. The channel is exclusively Spanish-language, but the text in the video that was distributed is written in English. Neither the Citytv website nor social networks contain any news about the Colombian government's plans to restrict the showing of videos from Ukraine on TikTok.

In addition, the video has several differences with the original videos of TV channels. For example, the Citytv Noticias logo is usually placed in the lower left corner and is part of the news banner, while in the propaganda video it is placed separately on the top left.

A video is being distributed in Russian social networks, showing military equipment located along the road. The publication indicates that it supposedly belongs to Ukraine, it was hit in the Kursk region, where it remains.

But the video does indeed show Russian equipment that Ukrainian troops captured in 2022. OSINT analysts geolocated the location of the video recording to the village of Myrnoye in Donetsk region. And the video itself has a watermark from one of the Russian propaganda Telegram channels. When the video was published on the channel, it was simply captioned as “a cemetery of Ukrainian armored vehicles destroyed in the zone” and did not mention the Kursk region.

And the OSINT analyst EjShahid actually established that the video was filmed in the village of Myrne in the Donetsk region. It is located at a great distance from the Russian-Ukrainian border. The analyst confirms that the video shows captured Russian tanks.

Ukrainian troops broke through the Russian border in the Sumy region on Tuesday, August 6. On August 12, President Zelenskyi wrote directly for the first time that Ukraine was conducting an operation in Russia's Kursk region. On August 12, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi reported that Ukraine controlled almost 1,000 km of the Kursk region. As of August 21, 93 settlements in Russia are under Ukraine's control.

Russian propaganda, including internet trolls and Kremlin-controlled media, have been spreading deepfakes on American social media aimed at discrediting US presidential candidate Kamala Harris. The materials were created using artificial intelligence.

This was reported by Bloomberg, citing a Microsoft study. DEV.ua journalists claim that the report states that Russian propaganda tactics included fake posts and fabricated images that allegedly came from verified sources, but the goal was to spread negative information about Harris. One of these fakes was audio in which she allegedly discussed her opponent Donald Trump.

However, the attempts to discredit him had limited success. Only one video, published by an RT correspondent on the X platform in late September, became very popular.

Microsoft warns that artificial intelligence will be just one part of a larger digital manipulation effort aimed at influencing elections.

On October 9-10, 2024, a conference dedicated to combating disinformation, the EU DisinfoLab annual conference, was held in Riga, the capital of Latvia. In response to this event, a Polish pro-Russian Telegram channel spread information that the conference reported that Ukrainian disinformation had become a problem before the US elections. Kyiv's main goal is allegedly to strengthen Kamala Harris' position as the main supporter of continuing the war and supplying weapons to Ukraine. And over the past 4 months, the amount of disinformation from “Ukrainian agents of influence” has allegedly increased by 55-60%. In reporting this, the propagandists refer to a video allegedly released by the American magazine WIRED.

In fact, this information is not true - the video is fabricated. It is not found on the official WIRED website or on the magazine's social media pages. It is likely that the propagandists simply put the WIRED logo on the video and faked the story itself.

In addition, the video mentions a report called Disinfo 2024: Ukrainian November, but no such report has been published online. Most likely, information about its existence was invented.

Finally, the website and social media of the EU DisinfoLab organization, which held the conference, also contain no information about a “Ukrainian disinformation campaign” ahead of the US presidential elections.

With this disinformation, propagandists are trying to deflect accusations against Russia regarding interference in the US elections. Earlier, we wrote about a BBC study that showed that the Kremlin is trying to interfere in the US elections with the help of AI and fake websites.

A video is being distributed in Russian Telegram channels where a woman claims that the price of potatoes in one of the Odesa stores is about 40-50 UAH/kg. Accordingly, it seems that the Odesa resident is indignant and says that she does not know what to be more afraid of - the strikes or the prices in the stores.

In fact, this is manipulation, as reported by the VoxCheck project. In the video, a woman shows one of the most expensive varieties of potatoes available in the Silpo supermarket assortment - home-grown Granada potatoes. At the same time, this vegetable can be found cheaper in Ukrainian supermarkets. For example, in the same Silpo in Odesa, there are potatoes for 31-35 UAH/kg. In other stores, such as ATB or Tavria V, prices for a kilogram of potatoes range from 25 UAH/kg to 27 UAH/kg.

Also, according to the State Statistics Service, the average price of potatoes in Ukraine in August 2024 is about 20 UAH per kilogram. However, this is not the highest price for this year, because in June Ukrainians bought this vegetable on average for 28 UAH per kilogram.

There are varieties of potatoes that are more expensive - 50-60 UAH/kg. The same goes for other goods, for example, tea, which can be purchased for 70 UAH, or for 129 UAH. Therefore, such videos that Russians distribute are manipulative, because they do not reflect all market prices, but selectively show more expensive ones.

Earlier, we refuted the information that a 70-year-old pensioner was allegedly beaten because she refused to hand over potatoes to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Upon the arrival of pilgrims from Israel to Ukraine to celebrate the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah, Russian resources distributed a video online in which several Hasidim allegedly tore Ukrainian flags from a flagpole and threw them in the trash. Instead, they installed the Israeli flag. And at the end of the video, the man who threw the Ukrainian flag in the trash bin said in Russian: ‘This is Israel, baby”.

In fact, this video was not filmed in Ukraine and has nothing to do with the celebration of Rosh Hashanah by pilgrims in Uman. This is reported in the StopFake project. Using a reverse image search in Yandex, it was possible to establish that this video had been distributed online since at least June 2022. The video was mainly published by Russian propaganda resources, as well as anonymous Telegram channels. Many of the resources where the video appeared claimed that it was filmed in Israel, where local residents, unhappy with the presence of Ukrainian flags on the streets, replaced them with Israeli symbols.

Such fakes about anti-Semitism of Ukrainians or deliberate bad attitude of Jews towards Ukrainians are not uncommon. Earlier we analyzed the Russian disinformation message that Ukraine organized a “Jewish pogrom” in Dagestan.

Videos of military equipment located along the road are being distributed online. The descriptions of the corresponding videos say that this is allegedly Ukrainian equipment that was hit in the Kursk region, where it remains.

In fact, this information is fake, the VoxCheck project reports. The video shows Russian equipment that Ukrainian troops managed to capture as a result of military operations. At the beginning, a tank is visible, a photo of which was published back in 2022.

Further on, at the 16th second of the video, one can see an advertisement for Best Mix pet food in Ukrainian from the Ukrainian company Inbel. It could not be placed in the Kursk region.

Finally, OSINT analyst "EjShahid" established that the video was filmed in the village of Myrne in Donetsk region. It is located at a great distance from the Russian-Ukrainian border. The analyst additionally confirms that the video shows captured Russian tanks.

The purpose of the fake is to convince everyone around that the Kursk operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly makes no sense and entails huge losses for Ukraine, both in personnel and equipment. Earlier, we refuted the information that 74% of Ukrainians are against the Kursk operation.

Russian propaganda sources are distributing a video on behalf of the UNITED24 platform, which states that Ukraine is allegedly planning to recruit Polish military personnel to work in the Territorial center of procurement and social support in December 2024.

However, this information is not true. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation after verifying this “news” on the initiative of UNITED24 itself. They did not create such content and, accordingly, did not distribute it.

The purpose of this fake is to cause discord between the Ukrainian and Polish peoples, as well as to discredit the cooperation between Ukraine and its partners. We have previously refuted a number of similar fakes, where Russians spread disinformation on behalf of the UNITED24 platform. For example, in the Kursk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are “massively poisoned by food” from local stores.

A video of Ukrainian servicemen packing up their belongings is being circulated in the Russian segment of social networks. Propagandists claim that the video is allegedly evidence of “looting” by Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region.

“The villagers are robbing the Kursk region. The Nazis cannot do otherwise”, users comment.

But using image search tools, StopFake fact-checkers discovered that the video of soldiers packing their belongings was published on September 15 on the channel of a Ukrainian serviceman from the 58th separate motorized infantry brigade.

Also in the description of the video the location is indicated - Donbas. From the following videos on this channel one can see that the military is moving to another place.

Russian propaganda accuses Ukrainian troops of looting for many reasons - both to discredit the image of the Ukrainian armed forces and to distract attention from the problems with looting among Russian soldiers, which have repeatedly proven themselves guilty.

Information about a supposed "necrophilia show” in Kyiv, featuring dancing coffins and a funeral parade, is being spread on social networks. The propagandists who create these publications are trying to link this to Ukraine's “moral decline”, its rejection of Orthodoxy, and the country's European course of development. In the comments, these events are called an expression of “necrophilia” and “the corruption of Kyiv Rus”. However, the video being spread has nothing to do with necrophilia or the rejection of Orthodoxy.

This manipulation was noticed by experts from the StopFake project. They found out that this is indeed an excerpt from a funeral fashion show, which was part of the international funeral industry exhibition in Kyiv, which took place back in June 2021. Similar exhibitions are held in many countries around the world, including Russia. These events are platforms for meetings of representatives of funeral businesses and demonstrations of new technologies and products. However, propagandists distorted the context of the event, trying to present it as an example of the moral decline of Ukraine.

Such manipulations are aimed at discrediting Ukraine, its cultural and political values. Propaganda tries to show that Ukraine, having turned away from Russia, has allegedly lost its traditions and moral guidelines, having become a victim of the European path of development. This is also an attempt to undermine trust in Ukraine in the international arena, presenting it as a “spiritless” and “ruined” country, as well as to divert attention from its own internal problems in Russia, where similar exhibitions are held regularly, but do not cause such criticism.

Pro-Russian Telegram channels are distributing a video claiming that a cemetery worker at the funeral of a Ukrainian soldier allegedly stole a PS5 gaming console from the coffin that the deceased soldier's relatives had placed there. The relatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier allegedly saw the gaming console on the OLX marketplace, recognizing it by the stickers on it. The seller allegedly turned out to be the cemetery worker who buried the soldier's coffin.

In fact, this video is another fake of Russian propaganda. The video itself is of low quality. For example, at first it says that the deceased soldier, whose PS5 was allegedly stolen, is Valerii Shpyrko, but later in the video he is mistakenly called Vitalii. In addition, there is no information in reliable and verified Ukrainian media that such an incident actually occurred. In the end, it is unclear how a cemetery worker could steal a game console measuring 39x26x10.4 cm (i.e. quite large) while burying a coffin so that it would remain unnoticed.

With this fake, the Russians are trying to sow distrust and discord among Ukrainian society. Moreover, by claiming that this serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly participated in the Kursk operation, “during which he stole the console and subsequently died”, Russian propagandists are fueling the narrative about the alleged looting of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region. Earlier, we analyzed a similar video fake, which consisted of the fact that the Territorial center of procurement and social support workers allegedly killed a student from Lviv, and then threw his body into the Tysa.

A video of a drone hitting one of the towers of the Moscow City business center on July 30, 2023 was distributed in the Russian segment of the Internet, and this attack was presented as a strike on the Israeli city of Eilat on October 1, 2024. To make the video more believable, Hebrew text was added to the video.

To verify that this is a still frame of the explosion in the Moscow City business center area, it is enough to use Google's reverse image search tool. Thus, it was possible to find out that the corresponding video appeared online in July 2023 after the attack on Moscow.

It should be noted that this is not the only ancient video that has been passed off as an Iranian attack on Israel on October 1, 2024. Logically Facts fact-checkers have recorded and debunked a number of other similar cases.

Thus, the propagandists are trying to exaggerate the consequences of the recent attack on Israeli cities. Israel, in turn, admits that some Iranian missiles did hit air bases, but assures that this did not cause significant damage to infrastructure or weapons.

We previously analyzed the Russian message that the wars in Ukraine and Israel are “not an accident”, since the United States is allegedly creating unstable zones with its own hands.

Russian Telegram channels are distributing a video story, allegedly created by Euronews, about a Ukrainian artist. The story claims that the Ukrainian amputated his own tailbone to express his support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and to raise about 1 million euros for the army. However, he apparently managed to raise no more than 3,000 euros.

In fact, this video is fake as it is not on the official resources of the Euronews TV channel. This is written by the Center for Countering Disinformation. The propagandists used the name of a well-known European resource to increase trust in the fake. In addition, the story does not show the face of the “main character”, and the search engine does not identify such a Ukrainian artist.

With this leak, the Russians are trying to discredit the Ukrainian authorities, who, according to them, are corrupt and therefore unable to cover the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This is why the population is allegedly forced to resort to such extremes, just to raise money for the army.

This is not the first time that Russian propagandists have spread fake videos on behalf of Euronews. We have previously documented similar leaks:

- the 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

Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels are distributing a video that allegedly shows the Ukrainian military abusing captured Russian soldiers in the Kursk region. The footage shows several tied-up men in Russian military uniforms. The video also shows a Ukrainian soldier torturing one of the men, who is tied to a metal chair, with electric shocks.

The Center for Countering Disinformation conducted a study on the distribution of this video and found out that a number of Russian “war correspondents” received an offer to publish it from anonymous users in private messages. However, due to the obviously staged nature of the video, even the most dedicated propagandists refused to post this fake on their resources and ridiculed it, the Center adds. As a result, only low-rated resources published the video of the “torture of Russian prisoners”.

With this fake video material, the Russians are trying to accuse the Ukrainian Armed Forces of war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law during the Kursk operation. Russian propaganda also creates similar staged videos to intimidate their own military so that they do not surrender.

We have already documented Russian video fakes involving Ukrainian soldiers on numerous occasions. We previously analyzed a similar video fake in which Ukrainian soldiers allegedly shot Russians who wanted to surrender.