Russian Telegram channels are writing and distributing material from Military Watch Magazine. This publication, citing Ukrainian intelligence, writes that Russia can supposedly produce 25 Oreshnik missiles per month, that is, 300 missiles per year.

In fact, this information is not true. This is what the VoxCheck project writes about. Thus, the Military Watch Magazine website did publish the relevant material, but this publication is not a reliable source of information - it regularly spreads pro-Russian propaganda. The Media Bias/Fact Check resource, which collects assessments by independent fact-checkers of the IFCN network, considers Military Watch Magazine's publications biased and dubious.

In the text, the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, however, on December 4, 2024, in a comment to Babel, a GUR representative reported that Russia could produce up to 25 medium-range ballistic missiles per year, not per month.

At the same time, the GUR did not specify whether it was about the production of 25 missiles exclusively of the Oreshnik type or all medium-range ballistic missiles in general. In any case, the figures of Ukrainian intelligence are much lower than those given in the Military Watch Magazine material.

Previously, we analyzed fake footage of the alleged Russian Oreshnik missile flying during an attack on Dnipro.

A video is circulating online showing a dialogue between an alleged Ukrainian serviceman and a civilian man. This was preceded by the fact that the “soldier” first allegedly walked along the side of the highway for almost 500 kilometers in the direction of Lviv, then stood on the side of the road for four hours, and no one stopped him, but the civilian man-driver in the video stopped in his car and “picked” him up.

In fact, this is a staged video. The dialogue between a civilian driver and a supposed military man is filmed by a person sitting in the back seat of the car and to whom the “military man” for some reason does not pay any attention, even when the video is shot from a very close angle. In turn, the driver reacts suspiciously calmly to the “military man’s” words about the alleged lack of money even for the bus; two years of captivity; that the “military man’s” community has already managed to “bury” him during this time, erecting a monument to him, etc.

In addition, the “military man” made a mistake when he said that he had been fighting since 2013, because the Russian-Ukrainian war began only in 2014. After all, the “military man” could not have walked almost 500 kilometers, as he claims in the video. After all, the average walking speed of a person is 4-5 km/h, and even if one walks continuously for 24 hours a day (which is physically almost impossible due to the need for rest, food, and sleep), it would take more than 100 hours (more than 4 days).

The purpose of this staged video is to widen the gap between the military and civilians, trying to instill guilt and shame in the latter. This is evidenced by the fact that the fake military man constantly alludes to the alleged indifference of Ukrainian society to Ukrainian defenders.

We previously wrote about a staged video that claims that “posters with the late Zelenskyi” have appeared in Kyiv.

A video is being shared on social media in which a Ukrainian soldier allegedly complains about the arbitrariness of the Territorial recruitment and social support center employees, the difficult situation at the front, the unprofessionalism of commanders, losses among personnel, and urges Ukrainian men not to go to war.

However, in fact, this video was created using artificial intelligence, the VoxCheck project reports. The original source of the video is an anonymous TikTok profile, where the author publishes videos with supposedly Ukrainian soldiers and prisoners of war. A check of the Hive Moderation AI tool showed that the profile contains videos that were generated using a neural network. Accordingly, the tool showed that the appeal of a serviceman talking about the difficult situation at the front was also created using AI.

This fake is intended to misinform Ukrainian society about the real situation on the front and dissuade civilians from mobilizing for the army. Previously, we analyzed a fake about a mutiny in one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Russian propaganda resources, referring to the text of the Politico publication, report that only the western regions of Ukraine can supposedly be accepted into NATO. Thus, the propagandists write: “It is noted that the West has the idea of taking only certain regions of the former Ukrainian SSR into NATO. This list will include only the western regions, and the Kyiv region and Kyiv city, taking everything into account, will not be considered part of the alliance. Politico calls this the “German model”.

In fact, this is another manipulation by Russian propagandists of the material of an authoritative Western publication, the StopFake project claims. After all, the corresponding Politico text does not say that western Ukraine will join NATO separately from other regions.

Instead, the authors presented several models for ending hostilities in Ukraine. In particular, they presented the “German model” - an option for providing NATO security guarantees exclusively to the western regions of Ukraine or to those territories that are currently under Ukrainian control. This model became the subject of manipulation by propagandists.

Ukraine can receive an invitation to the North Atlantic Alliance only within its internationally recognized borders, while security guarantees can be offered depending on the military and political situation in a particular region.

Previously, we analyzed the Russian manipulation that former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg allegedly agreed to Ukraine's territorial concessions to Russia.