Russian propagandists used various fake justifications for the missile attack on the Kremenchuk, Poltava region shopping center. At first, anonymous Telegram channels did not rule out that the Russian Federation could have carried out the attack, but later they began to look for evidence that the Ukrainians were to blame.

Some wrote about pre-planned provocations in Kremenchuk and called the tragedy a "fire." "The explosion in Kremenchuk may become the largest-scale Ukrainian provocation, which can only be compared with Bucha," writes the Telegram channel, which allegedly found evidence of a planned provocation. This proof consists in the fact that the authors of the channel allegedly found the newly created channel "Who is being followed on Twitter," in which they published videos and a list of accounts of foreign politicians just after the events in Kremenchuk.

Pro-Russian Telegram channels from the "SSU list" promote the message that the mall caught fire due to an explosion at a nearby factory, referring to "numerous videos" from the scene of the events. Instead, they note that "the place of impact is not shown." Propagandists have already resorted to these scenarios after shelling residential buildings in Kyiv and Odesa, the railway station in Kramatorsk, and the genocide in Buch and Irpen.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported in a summary that a strike from a high-precision weapon took place at the plant warehouses, and the flames spread to the shopping center, which was not working. After this statement, anonymous Telegram channels began to spread messages, allegedly Ukrainians "bleached" to the Russians that "there is something" at the object, and the shopping center was deliberately not closed during the alarm.

On June 27, around 4:00 p.m., the Russians fired missiles at the largest shopping center in Kremenchuk, Amstor, which was visited by hundreds of people. The information about the missile attack was confirmed by the head of the Central Security Agency of the region, the mayor of Kremenchuk, and the video was published by the official telegram channel of the President of Ukraine.

The Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the shopping center was hit by X-22 missiles fired from long-range Tu-22 M3 bombers. "The planes of the Rashists took off from the Shaykovka airfield, and the launches were carried out from the Kursk region," the post reads. The Russians fired the same missiles at an oil refinery in Kremenchuk on May 12, the "Poltavshchyna" publication writes.

More than 40 actors participated in the production filming, and all participants in the filming were paid 25 dollars each. Such lies are spread by the Ministry of Defense of Russia to hide the crimes of which the Russian military is guilty. Russian propagandists played out a similar scenario in April about the cruel atrocities in Buch, when the pro-Kremlin media wrote different versions, for example, that the Ukrainian military is apparently "disposing corpses in Buch" or that these are not corpses but actors, in the video and photos you can see that they are moving, smoke, etc.

On the morning of June 17, Russian troops hit Mykolaiv with rockets. The rocket attack damaged four residential high-rise buildings and an infrastructure facility. Two people died, and another 20 were injured, including a child.

On Saturday evening, the Russians again attacked Mykolaiv with Kalibr missiles. Two rockets hit a plastic window factory, another hit a residential building, and the next hit a sausage shop.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed this in an interview with BBC journalist Steve Rosenberg. Steve Rosenberg recalled the facts from the UN report on the events in the village of Yagidne, Chernihiv region: "The Russian military kept 360 people, including 74 children and 5 people with disabilities, in the basement of the school where they set up headquarters for 28 days. The basement was very crowded. For many days people could only sit; there was no place to lie. There was no toilet, water, or ventilation in the room. Ten older adults died."

After counting the number of victims and describing the conditions of detention of civilians, the journalist asked Lavrov whether such actions of the Russian military were a fight against Nazism. Lavrov accused the UN Secretary General and UN staff of spreading fake news about war crimes. "Unfortunately, you know that international officials, including the High Commissioner for Human Rights, including, unfortunately, the UN Secretary General, and many other United Nations officials, are vulnerable to Western pressure. And very often, they act as a mouthpiece for the fake news that the West spreads, "Lavrov replied. The village of Yahidne is located 140 kilometers north of Kyiv, near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. The Russian army occupied it a few days after the start of a full-scale invasion.

The Russian military drove 360 ​​villagers to the basement of the school, where they were held for 28 days. At the time of the hostage-taking, the youngest of them was one and a half months old, and the oldest was 93 years old. Among the detainees were 74 children and 5 infants.

The hostages were in the basement around the clock. The Russian military used them as a human shield for their headquarters, which they organized in the school building. People were left in a confined space without ventilation, medication, and the ability to move. They slept sitting or standing. According to the hostages, the daily ration was only 200 grams of soup for two.

The Russian occupiers are spreading information that children born after February 24 and orphans in the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts will automatically receive Russian citizenship. At the same time, refer to the words of the so-called "deputy head of the Kherson CMA" Kyrylo Stremousov. Ukrainian officials refuted fake. "We do not recognize these documents, no matter what happens. If he [the child] is born in Kherson, he will be a citizen of Ukraine. And after the end of hostilities will receive a document, a Ukrainian birth certificate," - said the legal chairman of the Kherson regional for the sake of Oleksandr Samoylenko. He calls such ideas of the occupiers' populism and propaganda. "How to document this? All these children [orphans] have birth certificates. Will they try to give them birth certificates, where the place of birth is recorded - the Kherson region of the Russian Federation? But there is no such thing... None of the so-called documents will have legal force," - the official noted. It will be recalled that Russia is trying to issue its passports to adult citizens in the occupied territories. In particular, the propaganda produces fakes about the number of issued Russian passports, calling the "sky-high" numbers.

The Russian newspaper Izvestia published an article stating that more than 100,000 Zaporizhzhia residents had already applied for Russian citizenship, and thousands had prepared the necessary documents. The publication refers to the statement of the collaborator Vladimir Rogov, appointed by the occupiers as the head of the so-called council of the military-civil administration of the Zaporizhzhia region, on the air of the Russian propaganda TV channel "Solovyov Live."

"There are already more than 100 thousand people - this is 100% who are now in queues. And thousands of people who have already prepared packages of documents," Rogov said. The article also mentions the following: "In the first three days, the city's passport office [Berdyansk] processed 25 applications for Russian citizenship. There are 70 more people on the list… Several residents of Melitopol have also already been given Russian identity cards, Rogov said on June 11. On the same day, Vladimir Saldo, the head of the Kherson region's Military-Civil Administration (MCA), received Russian citizenship. In addition to him, the first passports of the Russian Federation that day were handed over to 25 more residents of the region."

The high-profile title of the article is another fake propaganda machine. First, Zaporizhzhia is not occupied but is part of Ukraine. Therefore, mentioning Zaporizhzhia in the title is already a manipulation to attract attention. Secondly, in addition to the actual regional center, there are two large cities in the region - Berdyansk (population - of 109 thousand people as of 2020) and Melitopol (almost 150 thousand people as of 2021), which are now temporarily occupied. That is, when the occupiers talk about 100 thousand inhabitants of Zaporizhzhia, it is rather about the number of Ukrainians who remained in the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region for various reasons.

In addition, the occupiers are actively spreading information that obtaining Russian passports has also begun in Kherson. However, for Kherson (a regional center with a population of almost 280 thousand as of January 2022), they show much more modest figures - there only 1.5 thousand people "expressed a desire to change citizenship."

Information about this is disseminated online. The reports claim that the Russian system allegedly shot down a Ukrainian AN-26 plane with weapons and military equipment consignment over Odesa on June 5. The authors of such posts refer to the message of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. However, it is not valid.

Russian propaganda media allegedly wrote about this concerning eyewitness accounts - a resident of Kharkiv. According to the fact-checkers of the Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center, propaganda reports say that Kharkiv residents who have been in the city since the beginning of the "special military operation" are aware that the Ukrainian Armed Forces brought a large number of civilian casualties. However, this is not true. In fact, Kharkiv, like other cities in Ukraine, is being shelled by the enemy, Russia, which started the war. Instead, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are defending the country and repelling the Russian military. However, it is advantageous for Russian propagandists to claim that Ukraine is killing its own inhabitants to justify the war. However, it was the Russian occupiers who destroyed Pivnichna Saltivka. There is ample testimony from witnesses who said that the shelling came from Belgorod from settlements along the ring road, where Russian troops were stopped. In addition, experts from the Conflict Intelligence Team found that the Russians had fired on Saltivka, including by air, and that the shelling of the Rohani and Horizont areas had ceased after the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to drive the Russian occupiers out of Mala Rohan. The destroyed equipment of the occupiers, from which they fired on the city, can still be seen in the village. "As for the village of Zhukovsky, it is almost daily fired on by Russian troops from the side of Belgorod. It is because the Armed Forces managed to advance the least in this direction. Therefore, as several Armed Forces manage to push the occupiers to a distance from which they cannot reach the city, the shelling stops," experts from the Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center explain.

The Russian propaganda media spread this statement. In particular, Svobodnaya Pressa, Moskva.news, eadaily.com, and ren.tv published this information concerning the German media Linke Zeitung. Reports say that American General Stephen Twitty noted that the Ukrainian army is rapidly retreating under the pressure of Russian forces and that the Armed Forces' losses may reach 200,000 soldiers. They also add that the retired general allegedly sees the successes of Russian troops in Donbas. However, the publication referred to by the Russian mass media cannot be considered a respectable media:

- the materials are published here without authorship.

- the messages are mainly of a nationalist and anti-Semitic nature.

- the Google search engine does not have any information about this resource.

As Gwara Media fact-checkers found out, General Stephen Twitty did not say that the Ukrainian army lost 200,000 soldiers. "During a discussion on the YouTube channel of the Council on Foreign Relations, the former deputy head of the US European Command, Lt. Gen. Stephen Twitty, says: "We often hear about Russian losses and tiny about Ukrainian ones, even though they are also losing soldiers. Ukraine started with 200,000, but who knows where they are now?" The American general did not claim that the Ukrainian army lost 200,000 soldiers but only said that this was the number of soldiers in the armed forces at the beginning of the war.

On June 11, at 9:46 p.m., Russians fired four rockets at the city of Chortkiv in the Ternopil region. Russian propagandists claim to have destroyed weapons. But this is not true! The head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Ternopil region, Oleksandr Bogomol, said there were no weapons at the targets. "We see this as a crime, as a blow to the civilian population," Bogomol said.

The head of the Ternopil Regional Military Administration, Volodymyr Trush, said that part of the military facility was destroyed and four 5-story buildings were damaged. Twenty-two people were injured, including children. SES units rescued 12 people from the rubble, including two children. The detonation damaged the gas pipeline.

The Russian media spread such misinformation. Russia's Permanent Representative later voiced this fake to the UN Vasily Nebenzya in an interview with the BBC's HardTalk program. Russian propagandists refer to the interview of the former ombudsman in the Ukrainian edition of LB.ua, StopFake writes. Lyudmyla Denisova did not admit that she spread fakes about the sexual crimes of Russian soldiers against the people of Ukraine. She only agreed that she had used unethical language about possible sexual crimes, which could be an additional trauma for victims of Russian crimes.

Lyudmyla Denisova repeated several times that she used such vocabulary "as suggested by the victims themselves" and "psychologists working on the line of psychological support of UNICEF."

Propagandists also cite the fake that Denisova allegedly said that she "invented the rape of children by servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces during a speech before the Italian parliament to secure the supply of weapons to Kyiv." But in the full version of the quote, fragments of which the propagandists used to "confirm," there is also no confession from Denisova that these stories were "fictional."

On the contrary, Lyudmyla Denisova emphasized that she wanted to use the fact of her speech in the Italian parliament to explain why it is important to talk about Russian crimes.

This fabrication was spread by representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defense. "To do this, in a densely populated area of ​​the city near the service station of the regional ambulance, where the burial place of plague victims, the Armed Forces plans to place an air defense complex or its model," said the head of Russia's National Defense Management Center Mikhail Mizintsev. According to him, hundreds of civilians may be injured during this provocation. The colonel-general also noted that if the Russian military strikes at the complex, Kyiv will spread information in the media "about the emergence of biological danger allegedly through the fault of the Russian military".

There is indeed a cemetery in Odesa, where thousands of victims of the plagues of 1812, 1829, and 1837 were buried. It is a famous mountain, popularly called "Chumka." The regional sanitary-epidemiological station has repeatedly warned that it is forbidden to touch the Plague Mountain and everything stored in it. And although the risk of infection is minimal, it is still there. Epidemiologist Valeriy Sushko says that the plague is not as persistent as, for example, anthrax, so there is nothing to fear.

A spokesman for the head of the Odesa regional military administration, Serhiy Bratchuk, stressed that the so-called news of the provocation as part of Russia's information and psychological operation aimed at fueling panic among Ukrainians.

"Another goal is to conduct an information and psychological operation by the enemy and an" information alibi "for the use of weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine," Bratchuk added.

Fact-checkers from Myth Detector noticed the spread of similar posts on Facebook. They write that Denisova was allegedly fired for lying about Russian children, women, and men raped by Russians. It is a fake and a manipulation. The ombudsman was fired for several reasons, including that she had few members of the humanitarian corridors and did not fully perform her duties. Denisova considers her dismissal illegal and links it to political reasons. Human rights activists also call her release unlawfully.

Human rights activists and media critics criticized Denisova's work, including her reports of raped children. According to those who signed the open letter to Denisova, she abused the details and details, which, firstly, could re-injure the victims, and secondly, could help identify them. They also demanded that Denisova provide the data she owns to the police so law enforcement officers could start court cases or disseminate less information about crimes that have not yet been proven. The public conflict also affected Denysova's daughter, Oleksandra Kvitko: she works on the psychological helpline of the Ukrainian Parliament's Commissioner for Human Rights, especially with victims of sexualized violence. She wrote a lot on social media about her clients, which led to accusations of violating professional ethics.

In any case, Denisova's dismissal is not evidencing that the Russian occupiers did not rape Ukrainians. It is evidenced by numerous articles in Ukrainian and foreign media that spoke with victims and witnesses and the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, which investigates more than 11,000 cases of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, including rape. The case of one rapist and murderer has already been sent to court.

Russian media and social network users spread this statement. To such reports, they add a screenshot of the post of the People's Deputy of Ukraine Pavlo Frolov, which is about expressing distrust of Denisova through stories about forms of sexual violence. Russian-language posts about Denisova also stated that the Rada had admitted that she had lied and fired her. However, this is not the case. In fact, Verkhovna Rada deputies said several reasons for distrusting the Ukrainian ombudsman, including complaints about Denisova's activities, leaks of confidential information, her stay abroad, and low participation in the organization of humanitarian corridors. Denisova was fired not because of released the publication of facts about sexual violence. It has also not been proven that these facts were untrue, so it is impossible to say that there were no such violent cases. Instead, many instances of sexual violence by Russian soldiers are corroborated by victims' stories and documents obtained by international organizations. Read more.

Russian telegram channels spread a fake that the Church of the Ascension in Lukyanivka, Kyiv region, was destroyed by the Ukrainian military after the retreat of Russian troops. This fake Russian propaganda was built on one photo of the Ukrainian army with blue armbands, "posing against the background of a completely undamaged church." It was spread by one of the pro-Kremlin telegram channels, from which the Russian Defense Ministry often reposts information.

In fact, the Russians destroyed the church after the Armed Forces liberated Lukyanivka. According to VoxUkraine, the first reports of the liberation of Lukyanivka from Russian troops appeared on March 24, 2022. "We found photos of the Ukrainian military on a tank near an undamaged church using a Google Images reverse lookup. It is a screenshot of a video published by a Ukrainian fighter on March 25 on his TikTok account. On March 26, in comments, the video's author noted that the church had already been destroyed, " the fact-checkers said, adding that other fighters and the Armed Forces' Strategic Communications Department also wrote about the church's destruction. In particular, the Armed Forces reported that the Russians destroyed the church on March 25 with four shots from a tank. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), to which the church belonged, also claims that a Russian tank destroyed the building on March 25. According to the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, as of May 27, 133 churches were completely destroyed or damaged due to Russian aggression.

The Ministry of Defense of Russia once again boasted of a contrived "success," allegedly by Russian air defense means over the settlement of Bilyary in the Odesa region shot down one MiG-29 aircraft of the Air Force of Ukraine. It is a lie. On May 28, YuzhneMayor Volodymyr Novatsky denied information about a downed Ukrainian plane over the town of Novi Biliary in the Odesa region.

Russian propaganda, including Vladimir Solovyov's telegram channel, spreads the fake that 80% of Kherson residents want a Russian passport. Firstly, this figure is taken from the ceiling: there is no independent sociology in the region, and no one has conducted any polls. Secondly, this figure was invented by collaborator Kirill Stremousov - he simply told the Russian media that he "thinks so." That was enough for the Russian media to spread the news with such headlines.

The word "war" is recommended not to be used and admit that they are Russians.

In the village of Dymerka (Kyiv region), liberated from Russian aggressors, the National Museum of Ukrainian History staff found manuals explaining how to answer questions from the local population. The NotaYenota project published two pages of these manuals, and their existence was confirmed to Detector Media by the museum staff. According to them, the document was found in the village council, which the Russians seized.

These “guidelines” recommend that occupiers not use the words "war" and "murder.” Answer all the questions so that "the residents believe that the Ukrainian authorities have left the local population without pensions, social benefits, protection, electricity, and water."

We must also avoid explicit recognition that the occupiers are Russians; we must answer that the invaders are "both Russians and Ukrainians, but most importantly - that they are Orthodox," as well as Ukrainians. The primary purpose of such answers is to make people doubt the Ukrainian government and shift the responsibility for the war to the government or the president.

These methods are another proof of the information war against Ukrainians and an example of military information and special psychological operations conducted by murderers in the Ukrainian occupied territories.

Fact-checkers from CheckNews, a subsidiary of the French newspaper Liberation, have exposed lies and manipulation by former military man Henry Boke, who has recently appeared on television in foreign media as a witness to "Ukrainian war crimes, including the Azov," who seem to have seen with their own eyes. In particular, he claimed to have seen members of Azov "systematically shoot at the feet of captured Russian soldiers and then execute Russian officers" - all of which, according to Boke, took place in Bucha. The publication checked his message - and found no evidence that he could even see anything of what he was telling a foreign audience. Yes, the fact-checkers received information that Boke was in Ukraine several times, but most of his trips were for one day - he entered and left on the same date, for example, April 4. All border crossings took place in the Lviv region. And even the only time he was in Ukraine for almost three days (less than 72 hours from April 17 to 19), he was in Lviv and witnessed the Russian shelling of the city on April 18, as evidenced by his photos. He could not physically reach Bucha once when he was in Ukraine. Also, there is no evidence that he communicated with the Ukrainian military - only photos of checkpoints in his photo.

Researchers also spoke to his former colleagues in the military unit he served, claiming he lied a lot. You can read more about Boke here.

The Russian media disseminate such information regarding the statement of the Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation. The reports say that the Ukrainian military, in particular soldiers of the Azov, allegedly forcibly detained civilians with children in a kindergarten in the village of Borova, Kharkiv region. There, the Ukrainian military allegedly equipped barracks and placed heavy military equipment, artillery, and multiple launch rocket systems on the institution's territory. According to StopFake, despite loud statements from the Russian Ministry of Defense, the information that the Ukrainian military forcibly keeps civilians in Borova kindergarten is not valid. This was stated by the local authorities of the village on their official Facebook page, "Borivska selyschchna rada." 

The photo of a pregnant woman escaping from a bombed maternity hospital has become one of the symbols of the bloody war in Ukraine. The heroine of this photo, Marianna Vyshemirsky, immediately found herself at the center of a fierce disinformation campaign, as a result of which she was flooded with hatred from Internet users. In an interview with the BBC, the Russian service debunked the false claims of Russian officials. It is her first interview with popular Western media since being evacuated to her hometown of Donetsk, a territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists. Denis Seleznyov, a blogger who actively supported pro-Russian separatists and was interviewed after fleeing Mariupol, helped organize the conversation with the woman. Did the explosion happen near the maternity hospital, which did not work? The Kremlin has repeatedly stated that the blast took place near the maternity hospital №1, which did not actually work with patients at that time. According to the BBC's disinformation department, Marianne was in the maternity hospital №3. Marianne confirms that the hospital where the maternity hospital was located was operating and had patients. The Russian authorities claimed that it no longer functioned as a medical facility.

Did the Azov Regiment seize the maternity hospital? Russia has claimed that the Azov Regiment seized the building, which Moscow calls a "Nazi" organization, which Ukraine denies. From Marianne's interview with Denis Seleznyov, Russian officials chose isolated phrases to create a narrative that Ukrainian soldiers allegedly used Marianne and other pregnant women as a human shields. Marianne tells the BBC that there were no soldiers in the building where she was. According to her story, she saw Ukrainian soldiers in the oncology department, located across the building from the maternity ward. Still, she did not know whether they had a base there. However, Marianne's phrases from an interview with Denis Seleznyov were used by the Kremlin to come up with a new lie.

Russian officials used her words, saying that she does not think an airstrike caused the hospital bombings. It was a Ukrainian shelling, they said.

"The characteristic sound of an airplane when it flies, it is impossible not to hear it," Marianne said in an interview, adding that she had not heard such a sound.

But journalists from the Associated Press documented evidence that the plane crash was - including in the video, where the sound of the plane can be heard. In addition, the military and police are talking about the airstrike on video at the scene. In addition, the photos show a giant funnel, which, according to weapons experts, could remain only after the bomb.

"I haven't seen this funnel, but I've seen the video," said Marianne.

"In fact, I can't blame anyone because I didn't see with my own eyes where it came from," she added.

This controversial moment caused another wave of bile from the trolls.

"On the one hand, I was considered an actress. On the other hand, they thought I was lying that there was no airstrike,” explained Marianna.

Did Marianne take part in the production? Before the war, Marianne advertised cosmetics on her blog. One pro-Kremlin telegram channel lied that the photos from the delivery room were staged. Based on the fact that Marianne was a beauty blogger, the authors said that she was an actress, which made up for the victim. This lie has been repeated many times by high-ranking Russian officials and Russian state media. "It was unpleasant to hear because I really went through it," said Marianne.

Among the people she considered friends were those who did not believe her. For example, beauty blogger Yaroslava, who lives in Russia, believes Russian television claims that Marianne took part in the production.

"I think Marianne played her part. Ukraine needed so that the Ukrainian military could blame Russia for everything," Yaroslava said. Since then, she has unfollowed her former friend on Instagram and no longer talked to her.

"It`s sad, of course, when acquaintances believe in something I haven't done, and I'm not capable of because, for me, my conscience has always been above everything," Marianne replied.

The Security Service of Ukraine received irrefutable evidence of the direct involvement of the Russian occupiers in the shelling of the railway station in Kramatorsk on April 8, which killed 61 people and injured 121 people.

Due to many studies on the missile's trajectory, it was established that the rocket attack was made from the Donetsk region, which has been under temporary Russian occupation since 2014.

Experts confirmed that a 9M79-1 guided single-stage solid-fuel missile with a cartridge charge was used for the shelling. It is widely known as "TMC Tocka U."

According to the SSU, several complexes with "TMC Tocka U" are located in the occupied territories of Donbas and have been used by invaders for eight years.

This information was spread by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. The publication published a text with the title: "British Mercenary: 'We Didn't See Any Corpses in Buche'" by Valentin Alfimov, editor of the political department. The text states that "Andrew came to Ukraine to defend its independence. But, like other 'wild geese', decided that life was more important after all, laid down his arms and surrendered. Already sitting in his warm office, he gave an interview to "RT in Russian," where he told how the Ukrainians took him to Bucha a couple of days after our units had left there." The text goes on to quote this Andrew as saying that he was in Bucha on April 3-4 and did not see any bodies or destruction there. However, the original interview to which the author of the text in Komsomolskaya Pravda refers says that around April 3-5, Andrew did not see any destruction, but not in Bucha itself, but on the outskirts. He says so: "But, again, we were not in Bucha itself, we were kept in the outskirts. However, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Russian propagandists benefit from another claim that what happened in Buchea was only a decree by the Ukrainian army to discredit the Russian military. In addition, the propagandists constantly manipulate the topic of Bucha and claim that everything was fine there. they also occasionally emphasize that the Ukrainian army intends to arrange a "new Bucha" in various places in Ukraine in order to discredit the Russian one again. However, thanks to these lies the propagandists only seek to justify the criminal actions of the Russian military.

The Russian Defense Ministry and pro-Kremlin telegram channels spread a fake that a CNN video of Russian soldiers killing two civilian men in Kyiv region was allegedly staged. Russian propaganda compared the video to the events in Bucha; they also wrote that the video allegedly included Ukrainian soldiers or "inconsistencies" in the footage (shadow positions, markings on the car, etc.). StopFake fact-checkers took apart all the propagandists' statements in detail:

1. "It's the Ukrainian military" - a lie. Project Important Stories identified one of the military in the video. He turned out to be Dmitry Lapshakov, a 29-year-old resident of the Peschanka settlement in Chita, serving in the military unit 21250-B of the Russian Armed Forces as a mechanic and tank driver. First Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Yenin also said that law enforcement officials had already identified the Russian military who killed the two civilians in the video.

2. "Significantly different shadows in the episodes where the Russian military checks documents and shoots men" - manipulation. The two episodes were filmed on different cameras, located in different places, and consequently captured the event from different angles.

3. "The video does not show the second soldier at the time of the shooting" - a lie. The second soldier can be seen in the footage from both surveillance cameras. In the video from the video camera filming the car dealership courtyard, you can see the silhouette of the military man behind the post and his shadow is clearly visible.

4. "The interior of the security station is different in different fragments of the video" - false. The appearance of the room is the same in different fragments of the video.

5. "Inconsistency in military outfit indicates that the video does not show Russian soldiers" - manipulation. The Russian media themselves wrote in May 2022 that the 6B23 body armor "is most commonly seen in the Russian army."

6. "The Russian army does not have a unit called 'Tank Special Forces RUS V,' as written on the minivan." This is true, although the car is not actually military. Factcheckers say that the inscription on the car was made with paint, probably to mark the civilian car as "theirs."

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This manipulative thesis is spread by anonymous telegram channels administered by the Russian special services, referring to the video with Ukrainian captives, which was filmed by the Russian state propaganda channel RT. Thus, the Office of the President attempts to accuse them of lying and "anti-Russian propaganda. In fact, it is obvious that the RT propaganda channel, known for its manipulative stories in support of the Russian authorities, will not air any violations by the Russian military. At the same time, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmila Denisova has already repeatedly reported on violations of the rights of prisoners of war on the part of Russia. For example, the Ukrainian fighters are kept in the general regime colonies, without having made the conversion of prisons into camps for prisoners of war. Also, the Russian State Duma suggested forcing Ukrainian POWs to donate blood for wounded Kafirs, which is also a violation of their rights. In addition, Ukrainians on their return from Russian captivity recount humiliations and inhumane conditions of detention: in particular, defenders were dressed in prisoners' uniforms, had their hair cut, were tortured, forced to learn patriotic Russian songs and perform them for their wardens, etc.

According to Petro Andryushchenko, advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, the Russian army will collect testimony from Mariupol residents that Mariupol was destroyed by the Ukrainian army. Andryushchenko reports that remained in the city in writing. "For such an operation Russian kafirs announced the beginning of registration for compensation for the destroyed housing and / or loss of a family member. For housing - 500 thousand rubles (approx. 6 thousand dollars), for the deceased family member - 3 million rubles (approx. 33 thousand dollars).

Registration of applications for compensation is carried out in the premises of school №9. However, when submitting a handwritten application, Mariupol residents must necessarily note that the property "was destroyed by the Ukrainian military" and that the relatives "were killed by the Ukrainian army". In the absence or refusal of such a note, the Kafirs inform them that no compensation will be made. Given the psychological pressure and the state of information blockade, Mariupol residents hopefully submit applications with relevant notes," Andryushchenko wrote.

He added that Russia ends up with tens of thousands of handwritten "testimonies" about the "atrocities of the Ukrainian army," which are to be used to influence international opinion, including with extensive publicity through propaganda media channels that continue to operate in the EU.

"In reality, it is not possible to carry out such compensation. To fulfill these promises to the people of Mariupol alone, Russia must spend at least $2.5 billion. Which in the current state of Russia's economy is impossible," Andryushchenko writes. As a reminder, Russia has repeatedly tried to justify the crimes of its army and accuse the Ukrainian military of them. In particular, Russian propaganda tried to pass off as a resolution of the AFU all the atrocities that the Russians committed in Bucha.