Russian propagandists and various anonymous telegram channels spread information that Ida Novakowska, the spokeswoman for Eurovision from Poland, allegedly used a Nazi salute during the announcement of the evaluations by the Polish jury. In particular, information about Ida Novakovskaya's use of the so-called zig appeared on the channel of Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov. The Nazi salute in the Third Reich consisted of raising one's right hand and shouting "Long live Hitler!" (German: Heil Hitler!). The hand was raised at an angle of 45 degrees with the palm straightened: among the higher ranks - half-bent, ordinary and before the senior rank - fully straightened. However, Ida Novakovska did not use the Nazi salute, but raised her hand to show the V sign - Victoria, which symbolizes victory or peace, and shouted "Glory to Ukraine". The presenter also had a yellow and blue ribbon attached to her clothes, the permission to use which was previously agreed with the Eurovision spokesperson and spokespersons with the organizing committee of the contest. However, it is advantageous for Russian propagandists, and in particular Solovyov, to remind their audience once again that Ukrainians are Nazis, and that those countries that support Ukraine are Nazis.

Propagandist Solovyov published such "news", referring to Bloomberg. Recall the performances of the artists from 25 countries were evaluated by the jury and the audience of 40 countries. The national jury evaluated the performances even before the final concert, after the last rehearsal of the artists. The maximum 12 points were given to Ukraine by the jury of only 5 countries and spectators from 28 countries. Among them, there are countries that are not members of the EU or NATO, such as Australia and Azerbaijan. The TV audience vote takes place after all the artists' performances; each committed vote costs the viewer money. Ukraine scored a record 439 viewer points, according to Bloomberg. And the publication referred to by the propagandist is not on the pages of the publication. Which countries voted for Ukraine you can read here.

The fake "Decree on amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine and based on the interests of the state regarding the support of relations between men and women", which allegedly supplies all women living in Ukraine to yield to any principles, "to enter into intimacy" and meet the different needs of men deterring military aggression in Ukraine, is spreading in social networks.

Despite the absurdity of the wording, the document contains a number of gross errors in the text, writes StopFake.

This suggests that the document has not been verified and cannot be considered official. As the lawyer of the Institute of Mass Information Roman Golovenko notes, the official decrees of the President of Ukraine should always have a number (which is not present in this document). Also, the date of the decree indicated in the document (March 15, 2022) does not correspond to the date of the Law of Ukraine, to which it allegedly refers (March 18, 2022). That is, it appears that the Decree was signed before the Law came into force. The document also contains a reference to criminal liability for failure to comply with the Presidential Decree, which in fact does not exist. Additionally, Roman Golovenko notes that the term "adultery" is not mentioned in the Family Code of Ukraine at all.

This is the lie spread by Russian propagandists. This was reported on Facebook by the deputy mayor of Izyum, Kharkiv region Volodymyr Matzokin.

"Advice to Russian propagandists: if you are already molding fakes, at least try not to use the recipe of g...na. According to the official data of the General Staff of the AFU, Izyum was occupied on April 1, 2022. Occupied by Rashist troops. So what's April 9? Let me give you a hint, the destruction of multi-story buildings on Khlebozavodskaya and Pervomaiskaya Streets took place on March 8-9, 2022. It was done by the barbarians of the Russian army during the capture of the city. About 60 people died and 44 were found. Attempts by such fake reports to destroy the truth will lead to nothing but punishment," Matzokin wrote.

In the story of Russian propagandists on camera speaks a resident of Izyum Serhiy Shtanko, born in 1989. The gray-haired 33-year-old man notes that windows and doors in the house flew out first after the shelling, and that on April 9 at 9 a.m. a tank seemed to have fired and hit the slab. When asked from behind the frame: "Whose side was the beating? From the side of the AFU or Russia?" Shtanko answers: "They were beating from the side of the hunting store, which is 200 meters away. I do not know who was beating them. Both of them could have done it. But ... it was our guys who were beating.

According to him, a total of seven people escaped from the house.

Izyum mayor's office believes that Shtanko was forced to give such an interview under the threat of death.

Beginning March 6, the Russians began intensive shelling and airstrikes on Izyum, destroying the entrances of multi-story buildings and destroying all infrastructure. Izyum has been under Russian occupation for a second month. On May 10, in the temporarily occupied city of Izyum, the bodies of 44 civilians were found dead in the rubble of a five-story building. Among the dead, there are two families of five and two others of three.

The Russian Defense Ministry comes up with more and more series of series about "biological weapons" and "insidious" Ukrainians armed with biological weapons at briefings. This time, the Russian military took the old fake about "tuberculosis-infected leaflets" that were allegedly scattered by the Ukrainian military in 2020 over the Slavyanoserbsky district of Luhansk Region - and added new slides to it.

This fake was already refuted back in 2020: then a representative of the LNR Interior Ministry said that fake ruble banknotes were scattered near a district school, which people picked up, and during the day they became ill. The local laboratory seems to have found tuberculosis on these hundred dollar bills. The only real fact in these reports is that the Ukrainian volunteers did indeed spread the leaflets by drone - and did so regularly. The difference this time was that the texts were printed on paper that resembled ruble bills - and therefore attracted more attention from locals. Everything else is fiction: people could get sick for any reason, but tuberculosis is a disease that has a long incubation period of up to a month, so no one can catch it instantly and feel worsened within a day. You can read more refutation of this fake here. But the Radio Liberty article clearly was not read by the Defense Ministry - so they just repeated the fake about "deliberate contamination with counterfeit money" in the Luhansk region.

The Kadyrovites continue to create senseless fakes. This time they "reported" that they had found and reconstructed the abandoned hospital in Rubezhnoye, which was supposedly empty due to "lack of funds and resources. They also claim to have rebuilt and staffed it with funds provided by Ramzan Kadyrov's mother's fund - and they thank her and Kadyrov for their "care." The video is being disseminated by the propaganda media and by telegram channels.

This fake was immediately refuted by Sergei Gaidai, head of the Luhansk OVA - he wrote that the video the Kadyrovites are boasting about is of the infectious disease regional department, which before the war was the best in the region. He also added that the Russian military is removing equipment from the department, although they promise to make a hospital there.

You don't have to be an investigator to see that this is just another staging: the department has been renovated in a way that cannot be done in two days, there are Ukrainian medicines everywhere, which clearly were not bought by the Kadyrov Foundation, and the invaders themselves pose against a board with a sign in Ukrainian saying that the hospital was restored with help from the UN and the Japanese government.

Russian propaganda has taken the narrative about "European politicians with Nazi descendants" out of the closet and is actively promoting it on social networks, mostly in European languages. Recent publications referred only to the grandfather of Polish President Andrzej Duda Michal, who was supposedly a friend and associate of Stepan Bandera (which would prove the Nazi connections of Duda) - but it is a ridiculous fake: propagandists could not even find the real name of the Polish president's grandfather - in fact his name was Aloise.

Now the same fakes are spread about the grandfathers of three key German politicians - but German fact-checkers from the Correctiv project proved, that all these claims are false: the grandfather of Chancellor Olaf Scholz was not Fritz von Scholz, Wehrmacht General Gerhard Lindner is not the grandfather of Finance Minister Christian Lind Obergruppenführer SS Hartmann Lauterbacher is not the grandfather of Health Minister Karl Lauterbach. As the investigators write, the source of these fakes is a single person - "Putin's cook" Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose fictions were quoted by the press service of his company Concord.

All these fakes are part of a propaganda campaign against Ukraine and Europe to prove to Russians that the Russian army is liberating the world from Nazism.

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Once again, Russian propaganda media and telegram channels spread fakes about the "artificial creation of hunger" in Ukraine because of the actions of the West. This time they are using a fake spread by Ilya Kiva, a former Verkhovna Rada deputy: he claims that "Ukraine is exporting state grain reserves to Poland" supposedly because "Ukraine has been written off as a state.

In fact, about 25 million tons of grain to be sold for export are blocked at Ukrainian ports because of Russian aggression in the Black Sea. This is as much as Ukraine sold grain during 4 months of last year. The Europeans suggested a way out: to export grain by rail to Poland and transport it by ships from the Baltic Sea. So now the grain is simply exported for sale - no treason and "writing off the country". Strategic grain reserves remain in the country and the government of Ukraine has repeatedly stated that it is enough to meet the needs of Ukrainians.

Read more about the grain and export situation in Ukraine here.

According to the Security Service of Ukraine, Russian propaganda again began actively spreading disinformation about alleged "provocations by the Ukrainian special services. "This time the enemy threw nonsense into the information field that in the Dnieper "the SBU obliged the chief doctors of regional medical institutions to take the bodies of women and children who died from accidents and diseases to the Mechnikov Hospital. Like, that they were planned to be taken to one of the city's social facilities, where a Russian air raid would be simulated. As we can see, the cynicism of enemy propaganda is off the charts.There is no point in seriously commenting on another fiction, because the reason for such statements is obvious - Russia is trying to absolve itself of responsibility for war crimes reported in the department.

The SBU adds that it is the Russian military that regularly shells peaceful Ukrainian towns, kills civilians, rapes women in the occupied territories, takes children to "filtration camps" and tortures men.

Information about this began to spread actively in social networks. Such messages spread a video in which a man states that Germany has finally started filtering refugees from Ukraine, and that now they will have to report all of their property. And if, for example, the value of the car will exceed 7,500 euros, in which case it will have to sell it and live on these funds, or the Ukrainians will face criminal liability for concealing information.

According to StopFake, the video has already garnered millions of views from both Meta and TikTok. However, such a claim is not true. According to StopFake, Germany does not do any filtering of Ukrainian refugees. "Still Germany accepts all refugees from Ukraine. Ukrainians do not have to apply for asylum, but they are given temporary protection, which includes all social benefits under Article 24 of the Residence Act. After registration with the authorities, this protection will be valid for one year and can be extended up to three years," the fact checkers wrote.Read more

Fake that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky refused to use two letters in the Latin transliteration of his name is spreading on the network. As proof of this fact, they add a cover of TIME magazine, in which the letter M looks like horns over a picture of the president, which was placed on the cover. Such posts add that these "horns" must be pointing to something. In fact, as Project Maldita writes, TIME magazine did not publish an issue with such a cover, and the media's editorial staff denies that they issued such an issue.

"The cover also has a title, from which it allegedly becomes clear that Vladimir Zelenski refused to use the letters V and Z in his first and last name, and the media is allegedly looking for an alternative to these letters. This fake started spreading after Lithuania, Latvia and Moldova banned using the image of letter Z in public places, because Russians use it to mark their military equipment and it is used as an element of military propaganda", fact checkers write. Read more

Russian propaganda channels spread a letter about "the introduction of a Polish-Lithuanian contingent into Ukraine," which the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly sent to the head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. This fake is part of the narrative about Poland's alleged plans to seize Ukrainian territory.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine objected that they sent a similar letter to the Border Guard Service. The administration of the State Border Service of Ukraine also said, that it had not received such a letter. The agency specified that in Ukraine such correspondence is carried out only through electronic document flow. "In addition, in the letter propagandists made a number of both grammatical errors and concerning the Ukrainian border. It is possible that the text of the content of the letter in Ukrainian was translated with the help of an online translator, - said in the State Border Service. - We consider the appearance of the falsified document in the information space to be another dirty provocation of Russian propaganda."

The Russian and pro-Kremlin media have spread an old fake about Polish President Andrzej Duda, whose grandfather was allegedly Michail Duda, a friend of Stepan Banedra. These reports are, expectedly, accompanied by accusations of Nazism against the Polish leader. Mythdetector fact checkers reminded us, that Duda himself refuted this fake back in 2015. Then he said that his grandfather's name was Alojz Duda. He was a fur expert who died in 1992.

The Russian media is spreading a fake that in Ukraine journalists, especially foreign journalists, are banned from filming and publishing the aftermath of Russian airstrikes to allegedly conceal the truth and "prevent the spread of accurate information about what is happening in Ukraine. Russian propagandists write that this "ban" is due to the fact that foreign media footage may confirm their thesis that "the Russian military only strikes military targets. In fact, there are thousands of photos and videos online, from Ukrainian and foreign media, confirming that Russia is striking civilian infrastructure.

As for journalists: they can publish photos and videos of civilian objects 3 hours after the end of hostilities, and of military objects 12 hours later. The Ministry of Defense did ask Ukrainians not to publish photos and videos of the movement of Ukrainian equipment, faces and other military data not to report on military equipment of the AFU with reference to settlements, and not to show the consequences of Russian airstrikes live on air. Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Malyar said, that Russia monitors Ukrainian social networks, press, official pages - 80% of intelligence information is taken by the Russians from open sources. It is then used to adjust fire or select new targets for attack. Read here what exactly should not be reported and shown in the media during the war and why. . Moreover, Russian propagandists manipulate the idea that the work of foreign journalists is more restrictive than that of Ukrainian journalists. In fact - on the contrary. Read more about this here.

The Russian media and pro-Kremlin telegram channels circulated a statement from the Russian Embassy in the United States stating that Russia "was not engaged in cyber aggression. With this statement, the Russian institution tried to argue that Russian hackers attacked the KA-SAT satellite network. Recall that the kink was known back in March 2022. In fact, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrel reported, that Russia carried out a cyberattack on the KA-SAT satellite network operated by Viasat on February 24, an hour before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The attack, he said, caused disruptions in communications between several government agencies, businesses and users in Ukraine, as well as affecting several EU member states.

The Russian embassy's claims that Russia allegedly uses "information and communication technologies exclusively for the benefit of the development of the world community" are blatant lies. Just before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops, according to Microsoft, at least six hacker groups affiliated with the Russian Federation carried out 237 cyber attacks against Ukrainian businesses and government institutions. And in the first month and a half since the full-scale war began, Ukraine has experienced 362 cyber attacks. The Security Service of Ukraine, in its turn, reported, that the Russian special services planned to destroy the entire cyber defense of Ukraine: the night of February 24 saw the largest number of hacker attacks on Ukrainian systems.

Russia's attempts to shift responsibility to the United States, saying that it is America that is "one of the main sources of global cyberthreats" is also a manipulation. After all, Canada's Communications Security Center previously reported, that Russia, China and Iran are responsible for the majority of cyber threats against democratic processes around the world.

This fake was spread by the Russian media, in particular, the May 9 edition of Izvestia made a story about an allegedly burnt-out train that was in the building of a sports complex in Luhansk Oblast. Although the propagandists did not specify which sports complex they were talking about, StopFake managed to identify the building in the video. It turned out that this was the Luhansk regional sports center Olimp, which burned down back on March 18 as a result of artillery shelling of the city by the Russian military. Before the temporary occupation of Kreminna by the Russian military, humanitarian aid had indeed been stored in the building. However, it had been organized by local authorities, not by Russia and its controlled fighters, as early as March 22.

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This is the claim spread by the Russian propagandists in the media and social networks. The reports, which began to be spread on 7 January, say that the graves were replaced on the eve of 9 February, so that people could not go to the wake of their relatives. However, none of this is true. According to the Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center, the photos that were used in the signatures appeared in the media earlier than the propaganda message started to spread. Їh were published in the local publication "Redpost" to illustrate that Ukrainian soldiers find such "gifts" in the abandoned territories near Kharkiv.

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Social media are spreading the most common fake about what is being created in the so-called Ukrainian bio-laboratories, which are allegedly funded by the United States. Russian propaganda has already spread fakes about the fact that the laboratories are producing biological weapons, in particular, infecting mosquitoes and birds that will harm Russians. Now there is a widespread fake about the so-called experimental discovery of the human hybrid with pigs. These reports are supplemented by the image of a figure in the form of a nepivludini-napivsvine, which is allegedly the result of experiments in the laboratories of Ukraine. However, as the experts of the Maldita project write, it is not true, as the photo is a work by artist Liri Mahanuko.

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This information is distributed in local anonymous telegram channels. In particular, those in Volyn and Rivne. The messages say that each user of "PrivatBank", "Monobank" and "Oshchadbank" will be paid 2,000 hryvnia. As the factchecker of the project Brekhunets write, the text adds that the aid can be received as a lump sum, and to arrange only until May 10. "They add pictures with the logos of banks to the message, which immediately attract attention. In order to "register" for the money, you need to click on the name of the bank and, of course, follow a link to another telegram channel. On the official pages of the banks, we could not find information on payments to customers of 2,000 hryvnias until May 10. The press service of PrivatBank confirmed to us that this information was untrue. By the way, we also came across identical messages in the chats of all-Ukrainian telegram channels," the fact checkers wrote.

At the beginning of May, the Conservative Movement group, in particular, published information on Facebook that the United States allegedly refused to accept Ukrainian refugees and queues of Ukrainians were already gathering at the borders, whom Washington did not care about. The reports also added that Zelensky does not respond to such actions by the U.S. However, as Myth Detector Project fact checkers write, the claim that the United States has refused to accept Ukrainian refugees is false, and the manipulation is reinforced by the fact that since April 25, the United States changed the rules for accepting refugees from Ukraine, which caused a temporary delay at the border. "Ukrainian refugees need to fill out a special application, considered on a case-by-case basis, and find a sponsor to fund their stay," the fact checkers wrote. However, this is not a refusal to accept refugees from Ukraine. As a reminder, Russia has already repeatedly spread a similar thesis that Ukrainian refugees are refused to be accepted in EU countries. In particular, in Poland and Germany. Propagandists also spread fakes about Ukrainian refugees allegedly committing crimes in those countries. Thus, by reporting that the U.S. and other countries are refusing refugees from Ukraine, Russian propaganda seeks to discredit allies in the Russia-Ukraine war. Read more.

This information is spread by Russian propaganda media with reference to the Russian Ministry of Defense. However, according to Luhansk OVA chairman Sergei Gaidai, this is not true. "The Russian ministry of assassins has again reported. This time in their fantasies they "went out to the Luhansk Oblast administrative border near Popasna." Also flew to Mars and captured it. There are no victories, and from the zombie TV you need something to tell your citizens, so imagination becomes a help. Our troops withdrew from Popasna to more fortified positions. The defense is strong. There are no breakthroughs," Sergei Gaidai wrote.

This information is disseminated by Russian propaganda media. The reports say that the entire synod of the Russian Orthodox Church was allegedly sentenced to death in Kiev. The reports also allegedly refer to a statement by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Kyrylo Budanov. However, this is not true. According to StopFake, Ukrainian intelligence released information about clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) who collaborate with Russian propagandists and occupiers, noting that all criminals will be brought to justice. However, no "death penalty" was mentioned, because the death penalty has long been abolished in Ukraine, and the maximum penalty for crimes against the territorial integrity and population of Ukraine is life imprisonment.

Russian propaganda periodically makes news reports about Ukrainian politicians or military officers allegedly addicted to drugs. This time, the Russian media spread a fake that the Ukrainian military is allegedly forced to fight "under psychotropic drugs and narcotics," in particular to cope with fear. The Russian media's fake is based on information that pills were found at Ukrainian defenders' positions. As StopFake writes, in fact it is about a painkiller, which seems to all the military and, as doctors explain, has no narcotic effect. The head of the trauma department of the regional clinical hospital in the city of Chernivtsi Valentyn Vasilov said that in the medicine cabinet of every military man there are painkillers. "First of all, to inject such a drug and go into battle - a person does not adequately assess the situation, because he will not be able to accurately analyze and assess the situation. Soldiers would never do that, because they would not be able to recognize the danger in time, to hear the voice of the commander. Secondly, there are not many of these drugs in Ukraine and there is only one in the first aid kit. One ampoule is put in in case of very serious injuries," he explained. Read more

The Russian Orthodox Church spread a fake about the alleged "forced transfer" of the church in Dubyshche to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. According to the Liar Project, "Russian church propaganda calls the PCU a schismatic structure, and the legal will of the religious community is a forced transfer. In fact, the PCU is canonical and is recognized by the Orthodox Church. And the parish of the village Dubyshche decided to join the PCU on May 30 - 284 people voted "for" and 59 "against." "In addition, the text manipulates that the decision was made by the residents of the village, not the church community. Thus, Russian church propaganda denies the right to the will of the church founders - the people who through their donations have joined in the construction of the church and its functioning, who have the right to use the services of the church," writes "Liar".

Read more about the role of the Russian church on the occupation of Crimea and the war in Ukraine here. Recall, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate Kirill supports the war against Ukraine. Previously, he had already spread a fake that Russia "never attacked anyone." By the way, for such statements Instagram marked the fake post of a supporter of Russian aggression against Ukraine, singer Nikolai Baskov.

Russian propagandists spread a fake that found a platoon of alleged "cannibals" in the village of Novoselivka The Russian newspaper Izvestia even published a story dedicated to this "find. The "No Lie" project writes: "As proof of the terrible accusation and theft, the propagandist shows a can of canned food with the inscription - Separ of Donetsk. Tired. With relics of Motorola (a Russian militant killed in occupied Donetsk - DM). Does not contain any remnants of staples. Date of manufacture: 06.10.1942"". In fact, these canned foods are ordinary meat products, and the wrappers were invented by an ATO veteran from Vinnitsa Oleksandr Gramarchuk. In his creative arsenal of canned goods with such names: "Separer in Sour Cream", "Separer in Butter", "Snegirny Orthodox (with Kobzon's relics)" and many others.