Propagandists fabricated a supposed “investigation” allegedly conducted by the hacker group Anonymous, using the name of a Ukrainian media outlet as cover. The fake was debunked by fact-checkers at Ukrinform.

A video bearing the logo of the English-language version of the website and YouTube channel of the Ukrainian outlet NV is being actively circulated by Russian media and propaganda Telegram channels. The video claims that hackers from Anonymous allegedly breached the database of Rosreestr (Russia’s state real estate registry) and discovered information about a Russian passport belonging to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, supposedly issued to him in 2015 in occupied Crimea. In addition, based on these alleged passport details, the hackers claim to have found luxury apartments owned by Zelenskyy in the Moscow City complex, valued at nearly two million dollars.

However, this is a fake. No such material exists on the NV website or on the outlet’s English-language YouTube channel, where the most recent video was published four weeks ago.

The image of the passport copy is also a forgery. The photograph that Russian propagandists inserted into the document using photo-editing software was taken from President Zelenskyy’s video address on February 23, 2022, recorded just hours before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and concerned Russia’s recognition of the so-called “L/DPR”.

The claim that Zelenskyy owns real estate in Moscow is likewise false, as it is based solely on this fabricated passport copy.

It is worth noting that this is not the first time Kremlin propagandists have spread rumors about a fake Russian passport allegedly belonging to Zelenskyy. In 2022, they already published a similar “document”, supposedly issued in the Moscow region back in 2001.

This fake is aimed at discrediting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Kremlin media outlets, Telegram channels, and bots on the social network X are actively spreading a fake cover of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. It features a caricature of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, who recently visited Ukraine. The caption on the illustration reads: “The tomb raider has arrived to see the looter of the European treasury”. The fake was debunked by fact-checkers at Ukrinform.

However, this is a fake. No such cover can be found on Charlie Hebdo’s official website or on the magazine’s social media accounts, where new issues are normally announced.

The forgery lists the date as November 13 and issue No. 1741, but the magazine did not publish an issue on that day. The two most recent issues were released on November 5 and November 12 under issue numbers 1737 and 1738. The covers of those editions featured completely different cartoons unrelated to Ukraine.

Russian propagandists regularly fabricate covers of popular foreign satirical magazines. Among their “creations” are fakes allegedly from Germany’s Titanic, Newsweek, France’s L'Hémicycle and Charlie Hebdo, as well as other outlets.

The purpose of this fake is to smear the Ukrainian president in the eyes of Western audiences and to divert attention from the humanitarian aim of the actress’s visit. Angelina Jolie came to draw global attention to the atrocities committed by Russian forces in Kherson and Mykolaiv, where drones are being used to hunt civilians.