Propagandists and anonymous telegram channels circulate such news. Their reports say that Volodymyr Zelenskyi was greeted in a hostile and welcoming way and even scolded during his arrival in Kherson. Like, the president was confused by such a reaction and did not know what to do. At the same time, Kherson residents show with all their being that Ukraine is not welcome here. However, this is not true.

In fact, according to EU vs Disinfo fact-checkers, this news is not true. In the liberated Kherson, when journalists from different countries recorded many testimonies of local residents who greeted the Ukrainian army, cried, gave flowers to Ukrainian soldiers and treated them to portions of borshch, eyewitnesses talked about war crimes committed by the invaders.

Earlier, Detector Media already mentioned that propagandists called the video filmed by Kherson residents after the liberation of the city staged.

Propagandists are trying to refute the fact that Ukrainians are waiting for the liberation of territories. Thus, they want to justify their thesis that Ukrainians are happy to see Russia on their territory and allegedly prove themselves that they are part of Russia.

Propagandists and anonymous telegram channels spread this news. Such messages say that the United States has financial interests to get the war in Ukraine to be ongoing, since American companies profit from arms sales to a very great extent. However, this is not true.

For example, according to experts from EU vs Disinfo, with reference to the American edition of The Washington Post, which announced the invitation of Ukraine to the negotiating table. The United States was the initiator of this. One of the reasons for the negotiations is the reduction of the US military arsenal. Concern is growing in the US and its allies about keeping supplying Ukraine with state-of-the-art systems and ammunition as “some of the challenges the US is facing in terms of supporting Ukraine include its “dwindling” stockpiles of arms”, the article says. This statement is unfounded, because the United States does not mean to continue the war, supplying even more weapons.

Propagandists spread this fake to undermine the authority of the West, which allegedly helps Ukraine only for its own benefit. However, the unconditional assistance provided to Ukraine to protect itself from Russian aggression indicates that the civilized world helps us in any way without its own benefit.

This information was disseminated by the Polish resource Dziennik Polityczny. The publication’s material said that a Pentagon representative sent American troops to Poland, so the authors supposedly decided that Poland was preparing for war and deploying a new front. However, this is not true.

According to the Center for Countering Disinformation, this is not an official statement from Poland. That is, by sending the military to the eastern borders of NATO, Poland is only defending itself and not attacking anybody.

Also, in an interview with the Polska Times, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak stressed that the country does deploy American soldiers on its territory but only for defense purposes.

Dziennik Polityczny is a portal that has been operating since 2014. It has been repeatedly identified as an organization that spreads misinformation, especially on military topics. Fake materials about American troops in Poland as well as the Polish command have become a characteristic feature of the site. The resource publishes fake news next to reliable materials, thus resorting to manipulation. Recently, the portal published a pseudo-map where Ukraine is divided into several pieces between Poland and Russia.

Such news is spread by propagandists and anonymous telegrams. The reports say that the European Commission is moving military forces to the east, to the borders of Ukraine, which indicates that the EU allegedly seeks to take control of part of the territory of Ukraine because of economic interests. Like, all EU countries will divide a part of Ukraine among themselves. However, this is not true.

In fact, according to EU vs Disinfo experts, the assertion that other EU countries will take Ukrainian territories is unfounded. EU member states respect international law regarding state borders, fully support the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and do not put forward any claims to Ukrainian territory.

The very statement about the transfer of military forces to the eastern borders of the European Union, distorted by propagandists, was announced during the development of the Action Plan for military mobility, which regulates a simplified procedure for the response of the Armed Forces on the territory of the EU.

Пропагандисти поширюють цей меседж, аби залякати українців та продовжувати підсилювати наратив про те, що ніхто не зацікавлений в Україні як повноцінній державі. Мовляв, усі країни лишень хочуть її розділити. Однак активна підтримка європейської спільноти свідчить про інше.

Anonymous telegram channels that try to impersonate Ukrainians, such as “Naspravdi” (Actually) or “In reality in Kharkiv”, distribute a fake cover of Charlie Hebdo the French satirical magazine, which appeared to have been released on November 16 and was dedicated to the fall of a rocket in the Polish city of Przewodów where two people died. The cover says "Volyn massacre 2.0" as well as a Polish swear word. In fact, the next issue of the magazine came out on November 16, but on its cover is the French businessman and billionaire Vincent Bolloré.

Russian propaganda constantly invents the covers of famous magazines in order to promote the messages they need and in this case they say that it is Ukraine that is to blame for the tragedy in the Polish town. In fact, NATO, Poland and the United States have already stated that in any case, Russia, responsible for the deaths of two Poles, either launched a direct missile attack or started a war in Ukraine, which led to the fall of a Ukrainian missile. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said it was not a Ukrainian missile, but is awaiting the conclusions of an investigation by Polish experts. Ukraine is also participating in the investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy.

It's hard to imagine, but Russian "experts" are spreading a new version of what happened in Poland. According to them, on November 15, Ukraine launched two rockets into Poland, which killed two people, in order to “derail the grain agreement”, and thus “blame Russia for creating a food crisis” in the world. It is not entirely clear how the murder of two farmers can lead to the cancellation of the grain deal, and how Ukraine is interested in this disruption, but it is obvious why such a thesis is spread by the Russian propaganda media: they now need to explain why the agreement was extended by 120 days, despite the fact that Russia, and Putin himself, has constantly threatened to withdraw from the agreement.

Now, despite such incomprehensible arguments, one can say: although Ukraine tried to disrupt the grain agreement, Russia resisted, won and extended it in order to show the whole world that it does not want to provoke a famine. In fact, Russia has already caused a global food crisis: it stole grain and agricultural products from Ukraine; burned fields and destroyed elevators; blocked almost all seaports from which Ukraine could supply its products. And at some point it even announced that it was terminating the agreement due to fake reports that it was Ukraine that attacked the Russian Black Sea fleet launching drones from ships carrying grain.

But both Ukraine and Turkey ignored Russia's threats to terminate the agreement and continued to export grain, and that is why Russia stopped claiming to have withdrawn from the agreement. And today, the agreement itself was extended automatically, however, on November 19 the agreement could be terminated if one of the parties has significant comments or objections. No one, not even Russia, had such, so the agreement was automatically extended for another 120 days. Now Russian propagandists are trying hard to explain why Putin said two weeks ago that Russia would withdraw from the agreement, and now it has been extended for four months, and Russia has not even bargained for additional terms. That is why they come up with explanations about how heroically they did not allow Ukraine to disrupt the agreement.

The Kremlin media are spreading another fake - that Ukrainian recruits who are studying in the UK are "shocked by the seen" as the "ignorant" "came from the villages" and it will be “difficult for them to resist those mobilized and trained from Russia”. The Kremlin media cite an article by the Financial Times. The article is really talking about the training of the Ukrainian military, and the instructors really talk about several problems in training the Ukrainians: the training lasts 5-6 weeks while the British military has 14 weeks. And the Ukrainians are from different units, so it will be difficult for them in the future when they return to their own units. But this is all.

Not a word is mentioned about "villages", about "lack of education", or that the Ukrainian military is "shocked" by training conditions that simulate conditions close to combat - including a lot of blood and torn off fake limbs; there are also actors playing the roles of the wounded. All these phrases about “not professional enough” Ukrainian recruits were simply invented by Russian propagandists and added to the news, referring to the Financial Times. At the same time, the following phrase was thrown out of the text by Lieutenant Colonel Harris, who supervises Ukrainian recruits:

“They are the most motivated, determined, hungry-to-learn trainees that I’ve worked with across the world in my 20 years of soldiering. That they train in water up to their knees for 36 hours and can still laugh, joke and quickly answer questions says it all for me.”

Russian propaganda is constantly trying to convince their local audience and part of the Ukrainian that mobilization will “turn the tide” of events at the front and that the Ukrainian military does not know how to fight. They attribute Russia's defeats in the war to the abilities of mythical "foreign mercenaries" and "NATO command".

Russian telegram channels, as part of a large narrative about “Nazi” Ukraine or “Ukrainians as descendants of Nazis”, have come up with and promote another fake: it seems that on November 16 the city of Novohrad-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr region, was renamed into Zviahel and it proves that the Ukrainian government is “Nazi”. As proof, they spread the word that the city had this name during the German occupation in 1941-1944. And indeed it is.

But at the same time, this city was called Zviahel (or modifications of this name) from the moment of its establishment - at least from the first mention of the city in 1256. And for more than 500 years it had borne this name - until the partition of Poland under Catherine II who ordered the name Zviahel to be changed to Novohrad-Volynskyi in 1795. From then until 2022, with the exception of four years of occupation, the city had the name that was invented for it under the Russian Empress, and this year the historical name was finally returned. By the way, Lesia Ukrainka and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi were born in this city.

Russian propaganda media massively disseminate the statement of the head of the Lublin city council Yaroslav Pakula, who allegedly accused Ukraine of provocation, that is, of the deliberate shelling of the Polish city of Przewoduv, where on November 15 two people died from a rocket fall.

“Obviously, this is a Ukrainian missile. Obviously, this is a provocation on the part of the Ukrainian authorities. The purpose of the provocation is to speed up the supply of weapons to Ukraine, to intimidate Europe with a terrible Russia, so that civil society demands from the governments of European countries to increase assistance to Ukraine”, Pakula’s words are allegedly quoted in publications. But the StopFake project found out that the Facebook page on which this post was published was created on November 16, 2022. That is the day after the missile hit. Moreover, all the posts posted on it were also made public exactly on November 16 but the date in them was changed to the previous ones. At the time of publication of the news of the Russian media, which quoted "Pakula", there was not a single like or share of this post. Fact checkers have contacted Pakula and are waiting for his comment, but it is clear that the Facebook page was created on purpose to spread disinformation.

Previously, Russian propagandists have repeatedly used fake pages of politicians or media to spread fakes. Russia is also trying to quarrel with its closest neighbors and partners, so it constantly promotes fakes about Poland and its relations with Ukraine.

The Center for Counteracting Disinformation reports that against the backdrop of the energy crisis, fake social networks have begun to appear that copy the official channels of Ukrainian energy companies.

In particular, a fake Telegram channel of DTEK Kyiv Regional Electric Grids was discovered (https://t.me/DTEKKyivskelectromerezhibot). The official chat bot of this company in Telegram has the address: https://t.me/DTEKKyivRegionElektromerezhiBot.

Such fake communication channels can be used to destabilize the internal situation and spread panic among Ukrainians.

Раніше у мережі поширювали фейкові графіки викнення електроенергії та повідомлення про «енергетичну тривогу», а також створили фейковий сайт фонду «Повернись живим».

Pro-Russian telegram channels are distributing the cover of the alleged El Jueves magazine, in which foreign media allegedly continue to mock the President of Ukraine. It seems that this time the cover hints that Zelenskyi already made everyone “tired to the point of nausea”. This cover is fake.

Russian propaganda systematically uses fake satirical magazine covers to promote disinformation narratives and ridicule world leaders and the Ukrainian president.

This is written in social networks and telegram channels. The reports allegedly refer to messages from the chairman of the board of NPC Ukrenergo. It is not true.

According to NPC Ukrenergo, scheduled outages will continue in Kyiv and in a number of other regions until the completion of the relevant repairs and the restoration of the ability of the power grid to transmit additional power to these regions, which they need.

As the Center for Counteracting Disinformation writes, many telegram channels disseminated messages with an incorrect interpretation of the words of the chairman of the board of NPC Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytskyi on the air of the United News marathon and subsequently wrote a refutation of their own messages.

Such information is disseminated by Russian propaganda media and telegram channels. Allegedly, in the communities of the Kharkiv region, humanitarian aid has not been given for three weeks. Like, people are being starved, the authorities said to tighten the belts, not to walk and not to ask for anything. The reports do not indicate specific villages where there is allegedly a problem with the issuance of humanitarian aid. This is not true.

As the Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center notes, the situation with the distribution of humanitarian aid is different in different communities. Even in communities located nearby, there may be a different intensity of the issuance of assistance. However, on the pages of different communities almost every day there are messages about receiving humanitarian aid. There is a Unified Humanitarian Coordination Center in the region that helps to direct humanitarian aid to communities where the needs are more urgent.

Such information was disseminated on their telegram by Russian propagandists. As proof, they provide a screenshot of the profiles of three women in military uniforms on Tinder, the dating application. It seems that in the information box about themselves, the servicewomen noted: “I’ll meet a guy who likes to cut Russians”, “You suit me if you want to see Russian children burn”, “Raguli (persons of low culture) from the eastern regions, don’t disturb”.

One of the photos used in such publications allegedly belongs to 25-year-old Kseniia. But this is not true. StopFake recognized the owner: she turned out to be Shura Riazantseva (call sign is Yalta), who now serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Shura Riazantseva told StopFake that she does not have a Tinder profile, and the photo she posted on April 12 was taken from her Instagram page. She wears a beret of the Ukrainian Navy in this photo.

Since the start of the all-out war against Ukraine, Russian propaganda has been spreading fake photos and videos to promote the notion that the Ukrainian military and all Ukrainians in general are Nazis. Thus, they want to justify the war that Russia unleashed in Ukraine. During the occupation, the Russians kill the civilian population, including children, justifying their crimes, they say, this is how they carry out “denazification”, destroy the Nazis who threaten the Russians and Russia.

Such information was shared in some groups on social networks. It is not true.

On November 14, bomb experts will work on Svobody (Freedom) square and will carry out mine clearance. The head of the regional military administration Yaroslav Yanushevych urged everyone to stay at home.

The Russians mined almost everything in Kherson, so gathering in crowded places is risky. Kherson residents are asked to move carefully around the city and not to touch suspicious objects.

Pro-Russian anonymous telegram channels spread information that a tragedy, catastrophe or information stuffing on this topic is being prepared in Ukraine for the G20 summit in order to stir up interest in the Ukrainian crisis of all G20 participants. And allegedly this plan will be carried out by the British.

When propagandists warn about something tragic in anonymous telegram channels, this is most likely a criminal plan of Russia. In this case, they are on the alert in order to remove the blame for their actions.

The Russians are constantly trying to discredit the partnership between Ukraine and the UK, not for the first time accusing the British of various crimes. In particular, Russia officially accused the UK of organizing a fleet drone attack in Sevastopol.

Russian media write about it. Allegedly, Ukraine plans to "launch an offensive" on Russian territory with the onset of cold weather, so that "it would be easier to drive with military transport". As proof, they published a video in which this information is allegedly confirmed by a Ukrainian prisoner of war. It is not true.

Propagandists often use prisoners of war who, under pressure, are forced to say fictitious things on camera in order to then spread fakes in the information space.

The Ukrainian army is not an occupier unlike the Russian one. Ukraine seeks to liberate only Ukrainian territories from the occupation of Russians, and there is no talk of any “invasion” of Russian territory.

The military-political leadership of Ukraine has repeatedly spoken about reaching the internationally recognized Ukrainian borders in 1991 as the main goal, and Ukrainian soldiers are doing everything possible to achieve it.

Russia regularly claims that someone wants to attack it. In particular, one of the reasons for the start of a full-scale war against Ukraine, Russia calls the threat of an attack from Ukraine. Like, if they had not started the war, Ukraine would have attacked first.

Such information is disseminated in social networks and anonymous telegram channels, in particular, the SOLOVIEV channel. The reports say that Ukrainian intelligence had agreed in advance with local volunteers to prepare for the arrival of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, so the activists took up staged videos. Like, the enslaved Ukrainians are forced to pretend to be happy from the arrival of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, this is not true.

In fact, the General staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published a series of videos from the liberated Kherson. The video was created today at 15:24 as evidenced by its source data. That is, a video filmed in advance is out of the question.

In addition, such videos were published from the previously liberated Kharkiv region. However, propagandists again tried to refute this and call the video fake and staged.

Propagandists are trying to refute the fact that Ukrainians are waiting for the liberation of territories. Thus, they want to justify their thesis that Ukrainians are happy to see Russia on their territory. They have been convincing for more than 8 months that the Ukrainians are happy for the Russians, however, the videos show the opposite.

Such information is distributed in social networks and anonymous telegram channels. The report says that the United States wants to get rid of the Ukrainian leadership, which is why they will take such actions: the creation of an artificial tsunami. Like, thanks to this provocation, the Ukrainian leadership will capitulate. However, this is not true.

According to EU vs Disinfo fact-checkers, there is no evidence to support that the US is preparing deadly provocations in Ukraine. On the contrary, in particular in the context of Russia's latest allegations that Ukraine is preparing to use a dirty bomb, diplomats from France, Britain and the United States consider Russia's false statements to be a pretext that Moscow has invented to escalate the war.

That is, the entire international community is conducting certain observations, and even if such a provocation were being prepared, the Western countries would sound the alarm.

In addition, seismic activity (tsunami caused by an earthquake underwater) is observed in the oceans and seas, not at all in the rivers. For such a phenomenon, the river is rather shallow.

Propagandists are trying to spread this fake to nourish the narrative that the US and other Western countries want to get rid of the Ukrainian leadership. Allegedly, Ukraine is guided by undesirable or incompetent people.

Such information is distributed in social networks and anonymous telegram channels. The report says that Russia has asked the UN to conduct an international investigation into Ukraine's involvement in the operation of biological weapons. Like, in Russia there are documents containing descriptions of projects to study the possibility of spreading infections through insects. Allegedly, drones will spray dangerous substances and infect insects. However, this is not true.

According to EU VS Disinfo experts, Ukraine is a signatory to the binding UN Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, which entered into force in 1975.

In addition, the United States strongly refuted the pro-Kremlin thesis about the spread of biological weapons by Ukraine. U.S. Ambassador Thomas Greenfeld at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Russia's unfounded accusations of biological weapons programs in Ukraine on October 26, 2022 noted:

“Russia’s assertions are absurd for many reasons, including because such species, even if they could be weaponized, would pose as much a threat to the European continent and to Ukraine itself as they would to any other country. Bear in mind, much like Russia, birds and bats don’t tend to observe or respect sovereign borders”, Thomas-Greenfield said.

Propagandists have repeatedly spread fakes about the development or operation of biological weapons in Ukraine. In this way, they are trying to intimidate the international community and convince them that Ukraine is resorting to prohibited actions during the war, such as the use of biological or chemical weapons.

Such messages are spread by the Russian propaganda media. In their reports, referring to the words of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the propagandists claim that NATO plans to continue firing in Ukraine and will not stop it. However, this is not true. In fact, NATO cannot cease fire because the Alliance troops are not fighting in Ukraine. Indeed, the NATO Secretary regularly stated and claimed that the Alliance is not a party to the conflict in the Russian-Ukrainian war, and therefore cannot cease fire in Ukraine.

As the StopFake fact checkers write, to create a fake the propagandists used fragments from the speech of the NATO Secretary General at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27). However, Stoslenberg at the conference said that the war must be ended and called the best and easiest way for Putin to do this: "to respect the sovereignty of the neighbor - Ukraine".

However, Russia needs such fakes in order to once again nourish the narrative that Russia is actually at war not with Ukraine, but with Western countries, NATO, etc. This fake also nourishes the narrative about the so-called Western governance of Ukraine. Thus, Russia once again wants to stake out the opinion that Ukraine and the current local authorities are not subject, and all decisions, including very important ones — on a ceasefire, are made at the direction of Western curators.

Russian media write about it. Like, in Ukraine, against the background of the energy crisis caused by Russian missile strikes on the country's energy infrastructure, a new 30% tax was introduced on the import of generators from abroad. Netizens comment that it is not a sin for “sincere patriots” in power to make money on the complicated circumstances of people. This is not true.

As StopFake writes, the Government of Ukraine has not introduced a new tax as the norm on taxation of goods imported into Ukraine over 500 euros has existed since at least 2012. Moreover, due to the energy crisis caused by Russian missile strikes against Ukraine's infrastructure, on November 8, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that the government had decided to abolish import taxes on generators, transformers, batteries, etc.

Such news is spread on social networks and propaganda media. Reports say British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is allegedly planning to cut aid to Ukraine and its refugees. Propagandists refer to the British edition of the Daily Mail, which allegedly wrote that because of the budget deficit in the country a high-ranking official plans to cut aid. However, this is not true.

According to experts from the Center for Counteracting Disinformation, UK assistance to Ukraine is still ongoing. In particular, the sponsorship scheme "House for Ukrainians" is functioning. If the number of refugees increases, the country may make changes to the program, but they are not going to stop it.

Russian media write about this with reference to the words of collaborator Rohov. They say that as a result of new EU sanctions, enterprises located in the part of the Zaporizhzhia region controlled by Ukraine also “suffer from sanctions”. Allegedly, after the introduction of the 8th package of EU sanctions, European banks refuse to transfer money to companies and entrepreneurs from Zaporizhzhia, explaining this by the fact that the Zaporizhzhia region is included in the sanctions list. Rohov says that supposedly EU officials know something about the future of the city of Zaporizhzhia and have already come to terms with the fact that this is Russia. This is not true.

The new package of sanctions adopted by the European Union against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, refers to a ban on the import of goods from non-government-controlled parts of the regions. In particular, a ban was introduced on imports from the temporarily occupied regions of the Zaporizhzhia region. The European Union continues to constantly support the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.

According to StopFake, the EU has approved extending the ban on the import of goods from non-government controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions to non-government controlled areas of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. We are not talking about individual enterprises in Zaporizhzhia, as well as about enterprises located in the controlled areas of these regions. The sanctions refer only to a ban on the import of goods from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

This thesis was spread by Russian President Volodymyr Putin, after which it was replicated by Russian propaganda media. Putin is convinced that Mariupol is an ancient Russian city. He also claims that the city was founded by Peter I and created his first military flotilla there. However, it is not so. In fact, in Russian historiography, Mariupol as a city in the Russian Empire was founded in 1778, already under Catherine II. Then the city was called Pavlovsk. However, this was preceded by the existence on this territory of the Kalmius settlement - the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Cossacks - with the settlement of Domakha with the Kalmius fortress as the center. The fact-checkers of The Insider project write about this. In 1778-1779, the Russian authorities evicted the Christian population from there to the Crimea and settled Russians there.