A Polish pro-Russian Telegram channel has spread information that the Verkhovna Rada has “declared war” on the tombstones of fallen Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, on which they are allegedly depicted together with Volodymyr Zelenskyi. Thus, relatives of fallen Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, on whose tombstones a joyful Zelenskyi is allegedly depicted with a soldier “on a shield”, must remove the image of the Ukrainian president from the tombstone within 60 days. Otherwise, as the propagandists write, local authorities “will simply dismantle the tombstone”. In reporting this, the pro-Russian Telegram channel refers to a video in which information is provided in Ukrainian.

In fact, this is another fake of propagandists. There is no such resolution on the official portal of the Verkhovna Rada. Also, no reliable Ukrainian media published such information. In addition, in the subtitles to the video, the fakers made a mistake, writing the word “dismantles” with an extra letter “u”.

After all, it is not at all common practice in Ukraine to depict President Zelenskyi at the graves of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, although the video states that there are “at least 21,400 such cases”. The data provided is unfounded, and its source is not indicated.

The aim of the fake is to discredit President Zelenskyi and desecrate the culture of memory in Ukraine. We have repeatedly recorded similar fakes that speculate on the graves of fallen Ukrainian soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Thus, earlier we refuted the information that Ukrainians had destroyed the grave of a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who died in Mariupol.

Pro-Russian sources have spread information that on November 17, 2024, while repelling a massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine, a Ukrainian servicewoman allegedly hit not a Russian missile, but a house. Thus, she left people homeless.

However, this is not true, as reported by the StopFake project. There is no evidence that the house was destroyed as a result of a shot fired by a Ukrainian servicewoman from an Igla MANPADS.

The propagandists are referring to the story of Nataliia Hrabarchuk, who actually destroyed a Russian cruise missile using an Igla MANPADS during its first combat launch on November 17. This was confirmed by the Ukrainian Air Force. They also noted that Hrabarchuk had been undergoing training courses at a training center for five months, mastered various types of portable anti-aircraft missile systems, and is now an anti-aircraft gunner in the anti-aircraft missile unit of the Galicia-Volyn Radio Technical Brigade of the Zakhid (West) Air Command.

The falsity of the information about the “destruction of the house” is also indicated by the fact that its original source has previously spread fakes. This source tries to mimic Ukrainian, but in fact regularly publishes disinformation narratives and fake stories.

Before serving in the army, Nataliia Hrabarchuk worked as a kindergarten teacher, and now she defends the Ukrainian skies together with other women. This is one of the reasons why this story went viral, and propagandists, in turn, began to speculate on it.

Earlier, we refuted the information that the cause of the tragedy in Sumy was allegedly “the work of Ukrainian air defense”.

A video has been widely distributed online, which allegedly shows the flight of a Russian Oreshnik ballistic missile during an attack on the city of Dnipro on November 21, 2024.

However, as the StopFake project writes, the video distributed by propagandists does indeed show the Soyuz-2.1a space rocket flying overhead. It was launched on November 21 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the Progress MS-29 cargo ship.

Another proof that the video shows a space rocket, not a ballistic one, is the “space jellyfish” - a characteristic trace in the sky. This atmospheric phenomenon is explained by the reflection of light from the rocket's exhaust gases, partially dispersed in the atmosphere in the period before dawn or after sunset. Observation is possible when the Sun is not yet or no longer illuminating the Earth's surface, but its rays fall on the inversion trail from the rocket at a high altitude.

So, the propagandists used this video to maximize the deterrence effect of the Oreshnik ballistic missile launch. Earlier, we analyzed the Russian message that Zelenskyi should supposedly “thank Putin and God” for avoiding a ballistic missile strike.

Propaganda Telegram channels have spread information that on November 21, 2024, former MP Mustafa Nayem was allegedly arrested in the Afghan province of Nangarhar for “attempting to illegally cross the border”. The authors of the corresponding messages claimed that he could be imprisoned, extradited to Russia, or even executed. The propagandists also assumed that the purpose of Mustafa Nayem's visit to Afghanistan was either intelligence activities or drug trafficking.

In fact, this information is not true. This is written in the StopFake project. The original source of the “news” about the detention of Mustafa Nayem was the pro-Russian Telegram channel “Sheikh Tamir”, the leading propagandist Maksym Shykhaliev. The author of the channel did not provide a single reliable source of this information, referring to abstract “sources in the Taliban”. Moreover, he subsequently deleted the corresponding publication.

StopFake journalists managed to contact Mustafa Nayem in a messenger. The former MP denied the news, calling it “nonsense” and explaining that he had not left anywhere and was currently in Kyiv.

It is noteworthy that this disinformation appeared on pro-Russian resources on the day of the eleventh anniversary of the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity - it was Mustafa Nayem's message on the X social network that became one of the catalysts for the beginning of the protests. In their publications, propagandists called Mustafa Nayem the “godfather” and “initiator” of Euromaidan. Of course, Russian propaganda is trying to discredit the Revolution of Dignity and the individuals associated with it with similar fakes.

Earlier we analyzed the Russian manipulation that vegetable prices in Ukraine rose due to the Revolution of Dignity.

The social network X spread information that the people's deputy Danylo Hetmantsev said: “We are currently studying the experience of other countries in the field of taxation for pet owners. It doesn't matter if it is a dog, cat, parrot, gopher or any other pet, it must have mandatory insurance and a fixed tax on the owner”.

In fact, this quote is fake, as the VoxCheck project writes. There is no such information in the Ukrainian media or in the social networks of MP Hetmantsev. Hetmantsev's quote exists only in one image, which was distributed several times by users on the network, but there is no such text separately from the image. These words, which are attributed to the MP, were published on the network back in August 2024, but then there were much fewer such messages, VoxCheck adds.

Also, when creating this quote, the fakers made several mistakes. In particular, in the word "taxation", instead of the second letter “a” they wrote “o”. Also, it is likely that the text was first written in Russian, and then translated into Ukrainian. This is evidenced by the fact that the word “possessor” is more formal, it is often used in a figurative sense - for example, the owner of life. A person who has property or animals is correctly called an “owner”, and not a “possessor”. So it would be correct to say "the owner of pets".

We do not have mandatory registration of pets and especially taxation in this area. The procedure for insuring pets at the state level has not been implemented either. Animal owners can do this in private companies.

Earlier, we analyzed the Russian message that “Ukrainians are Nazis because they choose big dogs”.