On social networks unknown persons spread information that all Ukrainians can receive assistance in the amount of 8,800 hryvnias per person from the UN. In particular, as the fact-checkers of the Brekhunets (Lier) project write, a screenshot of a message is being distributed by the network, which shows that the person allegedly received a transfer from the UN World Food Program. The person is allegedly informed that he received 8,800 hryvnias. Fraudsters convince: absolutely all Ukrainians will be able to get help. However, as the fact checker writes, the authors of the mailing lists mislead Ukrainians because not all residents of Ukraine can receive such help.

Yes, the WFP program from the UN, which helps Ukrainians in war, really exists. However, the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine clearly defines who can receive such assistance. In particular, these are internally displaced persons. And the maximum amount of assistance that can be received from the UN per family is 6,660 hryvnias, not 8,880 at all.

The well-known photograph, replicated by social networks, next to Hitler and Goebbels shows not the grandmother of the Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, but the wife of the Nazi Reich Propaganda Minister Magda Goebbels.

Writes “Reuters”. At the same time, the agency refers to several Facebook and Twitter accounts at once, some of which are verified.

However, the original source of this photo is from the media company Getty Images. There, a similar photograph is dated to the 1930s and bears the caption: “German dictator and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) (center back) stands with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945), his wife Magda (1901 - 1945) and their three older children”.

This lie is also spread by pro-Russian channels and accounts in order to accuse the Deputy Prime Minister, who is of Ukrainian origin, of having Nazi supporters in her family, and thus to compromise her. Meanwhile, Chrystia Freeland and Canada remain among Ukraine’s closest foreign partners.

To do this, they create messages on social networks in order to fake donations supposedly to help wounded soldiers.

The fact-checkers of the project “Beyond the News” checked the message in which the user signed as “Our Victory” calls on those who are not indifferent to help his “brother” Vadym Dobrovolskyi. He is allegedly wounded and in a coma after being hit by debris in the head. The fundraising message (€12,000) was published in early August and went viral with 59,000 shares, 3,500 likes and almost 6,000 comments. However, scammers are hiding under the user who posted the message. Fact-checkers also found another, very similar message about “help” to another “wounded” person.

The message uses two archival photographs from 2015, which have nothing to do with the text of the messages. There is also a discrepancy in other reported information. The phone number +380986704972 of the “brothers” of the wounded was previously used to register a personal Facebook account, which is now blocked due to “impersonating another person and using a fictitious name.”

The phone number +380986704972 was used in another help message. Here it is listed as a phone number “for contacting the parents of the wounded soldier Yurii Sternadchuk”. The message was allegedly made on behalf of the father, Volodymyr Sternadchuk, although it was published in April by a user signed as “Glory to Ukraine”. The photo of “Yuri Sternadchuk” is a screenshot from the video in Tik-Tok on the @muzhikam channel. This user creates a video about the everyday life of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The video from which the screenshot was taken was uploaded on April 17, and the Facebook post about the injury of the so-called Yurii Sternadchuk will appear two days later. On the phone in one of the social networks, they found the real name of the author of the channel, but they did not find any connections of this person with Yurii or Volodymyr Sternadchuk.

The reports about the “wounded” soldiers Vadym and Yurii are almost identical, only the date of the “wound”, the photo and the amount of “help” differ. In the first case, 9 thousand euros were collected “for the wounded”, in the second - 12. Fraudsters see what an emotional response the stories about wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine evoke and come up with stories that are similar to the truth for profit.

The fact-checkers of the NotaYenota (The note of the raccoon) project drew attention to the photo and found out that the photo was not from Azov and Olenivka. This is a photo from one of the largest Nazi concentration camps, Buchenwald, taken in 1945. As evidence of the detention of Azov prisoners in Olenivka, it has almost 9,000 shares. Fact checkers say that at first this photo was shared by bots, and then picked up by real users. It was also circulated in many patriotic and anonymous pseudo-patriotic groups.

The Facebook page Ukraine LIVE spread a message about “3 hellish months” of the captivity of the Azov people (although in fact it has been more than three months already). The report compares their detention in Olenivka with the detention in Auschwitz and the Hulah and illustrates it with a number of photographs – Ukrainian soldiers in captivity and a photo allegedly from Auschwitz. Actually photos from Buchenwald and other camps. The photograph of 1945, which has the Olenivka geotag, has been shared more than 8.7 thousand times and the number is growing.

In the temporarily Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, the Russian authorities are distributing Russian educational materials in schools. In particular, according to the Institute for the Study of War, pro-Russian authorities from Sevastopol arrived in Starobelsk, Luhansk region, to hand over backpacks and official state symbols of the Russian Federation to local schools. The Russian-appointed head of Crimea, Serhii Aksionov, also urged teachers in Crimea to strengthen the patriotic program in Crimean schools, in particular, to inform children about the decision of Russian President Volodymyr Putin to conduct a “special military operation” in Ukraine. In addition, the first lesson, which will be held in schools in the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions, is focused on the lesson outline, which is taken from Putin's article "The Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians", his speeches on the recognition of the independence of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as the start of a "special military operation". According to the Institute's analysts, in these speeches, Putin rejected the legitimacy of Ukrainian identity, saying that it "is a product of the Soviet era ... and historical Russia was developed on this land." Institute experts call such actions of the Russian authorities an attempt to erase Ukrainian identity in the territories occupied by Russia. Remember that in the temporarily occupied Melitopol, the occupation authorities are trying to resume the work of schools and, according to the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, they want to open 4 schools, for which teachers will be brought from distant regions of Russia. As for pupils, due to the frantic "deficit" of schoolchildren, the occupiers are frightening parents that they will deprive them of parental rights.

The project "Beyond the News" warned about a photo that has been "circulating" on the Internet for two months. Fact-checkers noted that the people in the frame are Chinese tourists in a Russian paramilitary amusement park, and not special forces of the People's Liberation Army of China, who are sent to Ukraine to fight in the name of the Russian volunteer army or the military from the joint exercises of the Russian Federation and China.

On August 17, the Russian Federation did indeed report on joint military exercises with China, which are to be held in Russia from August 30 to September 5.

In fact, the photo shows Chinese tourists in a Russian paramilitary amusement park near St. Petersburg, which hosts military-style corporate parties, team buildings and birthdays. The description of the park says that “a group from China was dressed in the uniform of Russian special forces and equipped with equipment:

“Our company welcomed very important guests from China. Tourists from friendly countries have long been taken to private army training grounds to give them new opportunities and experiences. We ordered a Chinese flag and stripes, developed a safety technique for the sunset in Chinese. Our training area is one of the most interesting and safe today,” the archived publication says.

The same photo was also posted by the amusement park on another page of its website on July 23 under the heading: “Organized a one-day tour for a delegation from China.”

After requesting AFP fact checkers to the park administration, all photos of the event were deleted and are available only in the archive. In addition, the photographer who filmed this event assured the checkers that the people in the photo were tourists. In addition, during official exercises it is unacceptable to simultaneously use flags of different countries on chevrons, and if Chinese soldiers served in the Russian armed forces, they would wear only Russian insignia, said Elzbieta Mikos-Skuza, a professor at the Faculty of Law at Warsaw University.

In particular, on the first of September lessons on “My History” will be held according to it.

This was reported by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. According to the GUR, the proposed "plan" consists of pseudo-historical facts and "crazy" ideas. It literally repeats the propaganda speeches of Russian television ideologists: “Ukraine was created by Lenin”, “the Ukrainian language does not exist”, “all Ukrainian heroes are criminals”, “Ukraine must be destroyed”.

Most of the theses of this document contradict not only historical facts, but also common sense. Propagandists claim that “the West, which feels like a global geopolitical periphery, seeks to undermine the unity and stability of the Core Earth” - Russia, more than 80% of its citizens belong to one triune people - these are Russians (Great Russians), Ukrainians (Little Russians) and Belarusians, - Eastern Slavs, heirs of the Ancient Godmother in Chersonese by Prince Volodymyr. In fact, the baptism of Russia took place in Kyiv, in Chersonese Volodymyr himself was baptized.

Emphasizing Russian imperialism, the occupiers will tell that "Ancient Russia, the Russian Empire and modern Russia were destined to become the heir to the great Byzantium, which was once the center of the entire civilized world, had the greatest culture and deep religious tradition." It seems that at first centers of early Russian statehood arose in Staraya Ladoga and Novgorod, and later in Kyiv. Although, in fact, both Russian cities are younger than Kyiv.

Also, according to the “plan”, it is advised to tell that “Hrushevskyi began to construct a Ukrainian historical myth revolving around Halychyna and publish a newspaper in Ukrainian, for each issue of which he invented several new “Ukrainian” words.”

“The Bolshevicks decided to create their own Ukraine, but in a communist way. This is how the "Ukraine named after Volodymyr Illich Lenin" appeared ... The Ukrainian language was imposed on people by force. In fact, it was the Soviet government that continued the policy of the Russian Empire and purposefully narrowed the use of the Ukrainian language.

According to an alternative history, "many of them signed up as Ukrainians for career reasons." In fact, the only nationality that contributed to a career in the Soviet Union was Russian.

They did not bypass the myth about the “Banderivtsi”, who allegedly “settled in Canada” after the Second World War and “inflated evil in post-war Soviet Ukraine”. As for the present, the US, EU and NATO "pressed on the Ukrainian authorities to turn Ukraine into anti-Russia."

That is why for infidels "a tense struggle must end in victory and the liberation of our lands and our people from the terror of Bandera."

Rewiting the history is a traditional tactic of Russian propaganda. Earlier, other manuals were developed for the occupiers, in which they were taught to answer the questions of Ukrainians in the occupied territories, or how to convince people that they are not marauders and murderers.

  In the temporarily occupied Melitopol, the occupying authorities are trying to reopen schools. According to the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, they want to open 4 schools, for which they will bring teachers from distant regions of Russia. As for pupils, due to the frantic "deficit" of schoolchildren, the occupiers are frightening parents that they will deprive them of parental rights. Letters are sent to parents stating that, allegedly, for not sending their children to Russian schools, they will first warn them, then fine them forty thousand rubles, and then deprive them of parental rights. Such threats are received not only by Melitopol residents, but also by the remaining families in Mariupol. The fact-checkers of the "Perevireno.Zaporizhyzhia" project received the lawyer's comments on this matter. He said that only Ukrainian legislation is in force in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Any legal norms of other states in these territories cannot be applied to citizens of Ukraine. According to the lawyer, in this way the invaders press and intimidate the citizens of Ukraine without any legal basis. The occupiers systematically manipulate the emotionally sensitive topic of child safety. Previously, fake reports were circulated that Zelenskyi ordered to start the full-time face-to-face studies from September 1. They also talked about the fact that supposedly Ukrainian children are taught to hate Russia from childhood.  

  The Azov Regiment stated that it had nothing to do with this manifesto.“While someone is wasting their time, we are doing our best to save the lives of our people. We are fighting for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. Yes, we will avenge the death of every fighter of the Azov Regiment, for the death of every patriot of Ukraine, but our revenge will be directed exclusively at the enemy, the terrorist country,” stated Azov.This is not the first time that Russian propaganda wants to push Azov and representatives of the Ukrainian authorities into conflict. Recently, the Russians spread a fake, allegedly Kyiv insisted on the placement of prisoners of war fighters of the Azov regiment in the pre-trial detention center in the village of Olenivka, Donetsk region, where about 50 Ukrainian defenders died as a result of an explosion, more than 70 were seriously injured.According to Russian propaganda, in this way, Kyiv wanted to remove the perpetrators of its crimes against its own people, and the blow to the pre-trial detention center was dealt after the prisoners began to testify.The so-called manifesto allegedly on behalf of "Azov" is a continuation of attempts to stir up discord within Ukraine.  

Such information is disseminated by Russian propaganda with reference to the results of social studies. Allegedly, 91-92% of respondents in Donbas want to become a part of Russia, and about 75-77% in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions as well. It seems that the decision to belong to Russia will be made by the inhabitants of the occupied territories, and Russia will "treat" it with respect.

Thus, Russia is trying to use the “referendum”, which it will try to hold in the occupied territories on September 11, in order to once again absolve itself of responsibility. All propaganda media present the situation as if the initiative to join Russia comes exclusively from local residents, and the Kremlin simply recognizes the right of the people to self-determination. People controlled by the army of another state seem to voluntarily wish to join this very state. Read more about the referendum under the control of the Russian army in the style of Russia or death here.

The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video in which, allegedly, the Russian occupiers "destroy a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine." Allegedly, the video shows how “reactive infantry flamethrowers Shmil destroyed the following units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and prevented their breakthrough.”

In fact, the video shows the Russian military destroying sunflowers, writes Nastoyashchee Vriemia (the Current Time). According to the metadata, the video was recorded on July 31 and is called Zanyattya_1DShB_v2, which may indicate that army training was filmed. Obviously, this is a shooting exercise, this is indicated by the fact that the operator is calmly standing near the military.

Russian propaganda repeatedly ascribes victories to itself and films the staging of strikes on video. One such video shows a journalist instructing a military man when to start shooting in order to record a "bright" flash.

  The occupying authorities in Kherson and the region used photographs of children from the Kyiv region on propaganda billboards. A resident of the Kyiv region, professional photographer Hanna Pasichnyk recognized her children on pro-Russian posters that appeared in Kherson no later than July 18, writes BBC Ukraine. Hanna Pasichnyk sold a photo session with her son and his best friend on the website of the Shutterstock photo bank. The children were standing on a flowering field of rapeseed in embroidered shirts. “Children are asking for support for Ukraine,” that is the description of the photo in English. Pictures with children in vyshyvankas (embroidered shirts) will later appear on billboards in occupied Kherson. Russian propaganda used her photo without permission. “Russia is here forever!”, “Kherson is forever with Russia”, “Kherson is a Russian city,” photos of billboards with such slogans were published by the pro-Russian public Kherson.ru a few weeks later. The Russian flag was photoshopped behind the children's backs, and yellow rapeseed flowers were replaced with a flower meadow. Subsequently, photos of a damaged billboard in Kherson appeared on the network. In the inscription "Kherson - forever with Russia" the unknown painted over the letters "son" in the name of the city. On August 24, Hanna published a post on Instagram in which she publicly spoke out against the use of her photos in occupied Kherson: “[Russia] takes photos of my happy children in embroidered shirts, despicably photoshops their bloody dirty flag, writes a false, hateful slogan and hangs it in Ukrainian Kherson, from which you want, excuse me, to jerk ... " After this publication, Hanna says, residents of the occupied Kherson began to write to her, who, she says, got angry: they say that the Russians dressed their children in our embroidered shirts and now they say that we want to go to Russia. “Now they are writing to me: thank you for telling all this, because it was very disgusting for us to see it. Now we understand that they didn’t even take pictures of anything,” she says.  

The primary source of the fake document was the Telegram channel of the Russian propagandist Volodymyr Soloviov. This "letter" is allegedly printed on the letterhead of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and is addressed to the Secretary of the National Security Council, Oleksii Danylov. It was allegedly signed by the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi, who has nothing to do with the correspondence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. In fact, such documents must be signed by Minister Oleksii Reznikov or his deputies.

Information about the losses of the Ukrainian army is a state secret, therefore, according to logic, the "document" should be marked accordingly. In addition, the "writing" has a lot of grammar mistakes, indicating that it was automatically translated from Russian or written by a person who does not speak Ukrainian well. Probably, the purpose of the letter is to demoralize Ukrainians because of the extremely high loss figures and to emphasize the victory of the Russian army for Russians.

Russian propagandists have been creating fake documents since the beginning of the Great War. Recently, fake letters from the Ukrainian and Polish MFA about renaming a street in honor of Stepan Bandera were circulated. Also included in the list of fake documents are the "decrees" of the President of Ukraine that women should "support by any means and forces the spirit of men restraining military aggression in Ukraine" and the deprivation of citizenship of certain politicians; "letter" from the head of the President's Office to the commander-in-chief about not using "Bairactars"; "order" of the commander of the National Guard to shoot captured servicemen; "letters" of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine on the formation of lists of graduates of draft age with the characteristics of the evaluation of military-patriotic education or with malicious programs. These are only private examples of the work of propagandists to undermine the confidence of Ukrainians in the government. The common feature of all these documents is illiteracy and ignorance of the norms of Ukrainian business administration.

The press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate reported that the occupiers had developed special “methodical recommendations” for working with the population of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.

This "document" is distributed exclusively to "instructors affiliated with the leadership of "United Russia" and is not passed on to third parties for perusal."

According to the "manual", the work of the occupation administrations in the occupied Ukrainian territories is supervised exclusively by the Kremlin party "United Russia", which agrees and strictly controls the work of any other organizations. This "document" allows the occupiers to "collect material funds from the population." Instead, it is strictly forbidden to take food products and medicines (including hermetically sealed ones) due to frequent cases of poisoning. Also, the developers of the "manual" offer a table with questions that Ukrainians most often ask the occupiers, and typical answers with additional explanations.

Earlier, it became known about other manuals for Russian propagandists to compare the war in Ukraine with the First World War and how to write about the "special operation" in Ukraine in general.

Finnish imaging expert Lauri Linnamäe posted on Twitter a series of posts about elements proving the fakeness of the “military ID” presented by the FSB named Natalia Vovk, whom Russia called the fighter of the Azov regiment and the organizer of the murder of Daria Duhina, propagandist and daughter of the ideologist of the Russian world "and the so-called "Eurasianism" of Oleksandr Duhin.

The examiner checked the "identity" through an online image interference analysis tool. In particular, the program selected fragments of the image where the clone tool was used in Photoshop (allows you to replace the color and texture of one fragment with any other fragment of this image).

The expert also drew attention to unsuccessfully reflected shadows, clear boundaries of the embedded photo of the cut out face and background, as well as an artificially inserted stamp, which, by the way, cut off part of the woman’s cheek from the portrait.

We remember that Russia has already tried to forge evidence of the involvement of Ukrainians (in particular, "Azov" in crimes against famous Russians. In particular, when Volodymyr Putin said that Ukraine was allegedly preparing an attack on the "famous Russian journalist" Volodymyr Soloviov. The Russians allegedly found unconditional evidence of guilt - improvised explosive, eight Molotov cocktails, six pistols, a sawn-off hunting rifle and an RGD-5 grenade, Ukrainian passports and "nationalist literature" autographed with "Signature illegible". Readers of "Media Detector" identified this case as the most ridiculous fake of Russian propaganda.

The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine warned: Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region receive SMS with fake information and a link to the enemy's Telegram channel. The report says that 85% of the region's residents are in favor of joining Russia.

As the specialists of the Center found out, the link leads to the Zaporizhzhia Vestnik Telegram channel, owned by the Russian occupation authorities and aimed at residents of the Zaporizhzhia region.

“This channel was created just a month ago, and its main goal is to incline people to the side of Russia, demonstrating “all the beauty of the Russian world” and at the same time to discredit the Ukrainian authorities,” the CСD wrote.

Together with the CCD, we urge you to use time-tested, reliable sources of information, as well as those where you can identify the author of the content.

German fact-checkers of Correctiv found out that Unser Mitteleuropa (Our Central Europe) published a false article alleging that the director of the Economic Security Bureau, Vadym Melnyk, admitted that "Ukraine is selling military aid" to the West and "mass appropriation of Western funds." It seems that he said this in an interview with the Ukraine 24 channel.

Neither the Correctiv publication nor the editors of the Media Detector could find Melnyk's interview with the Ukraine-24 channel of July 5, where he stated this. Also, no other sources contain such a statement by Melnyk. The article in the German edition is, in fact, a literal translation of the news of the Russian media that was massively distributed on July 6. It was in them that Melnyk's statement was quoted and noted that he told the Ukraine-24 channel about this, and there is no link to the interview in both Russian and German media.

Anton Krasovskyi, a director of the Russian-language speech of the RT channel, made a film about the occupied Kherson called “Russian Kherson. We've been waiting for this for 30 years." Many fakes, both historical and modern, were circulated in the film. For example, a fake that no one fought for Kherson, this is not true. Or that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling residential buildings in Nova Kakhovka, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a missile attack on the military personnel. Or that Kherson is a Russian and Russian-speaking city, that in Ukraine it was forbidden to celebrate May 9 or speak Russian, or that the locals have been dreaming of "liberating" for decades.

This and other lies of the Russian propagandist were refuted by two regional publications “Watermelon. City" and "Bridge" at once. They also named everyone with whom Krasovskyi spoke: they are exclusively collaborators who are now trying to impersonate the local authorities. Among them are Kyryll Stremousov and Volodymyr Saldo, as well as other not-so-well-known traitors. Not a single person who would not agree with the occupation is shown in the film. Krasovskyi also did not tell about pro-Ukrainian rallies at the beginning of the occupation, about the actions of partisans and torture, murders and abductions of Ukrainians in Kherson and the region.

This is the second time Krasovskyi has been making a film about “Russian cities” for his own channel. Previously, he was the producer of the same false film about Mariupol.

Fraudsters send messages from a hidden user. They say that "today" at 12 o'clock it was decided that every citizen of Ukraine can receive financial assistance in connection with Russia's aggression. Instructions on how to get money on the card are allegedly posted at the link.

Fraudsters do not note who exactly made the decision to pay out. There is a separate link for each bank. The design of the pages is similar to real banking sites. However, the link to the pages of different banks has a similar part "ki-pay.me". This is a sign of a private domain and cannot be owned by an official organization. For the most part, such domains are used by graphic designers, web developers, photographers, etc.

The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine discovered a fake letter in the information space, allegedly on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. In it, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry seems to appeal to its Polish colleagues with a request to rename the street in Warsaw in honor of Stepan Bandera, where the Russian embassy is located. The goal of the fake is to discredit Ukraine, warned the CPD.

In the West of Ukraine, in recent days, a message has been circulating on social networks calling for congratulations on the birthday of a fallen soldier. Users noticed that the message is distributing a portrait of Sashko Syvyi, who fell at the front in 2014, although his date of birth is different.

The authors of the "Brekhunets" project ("Liar" project) have tracked that messages calling for congratulations to fallen heroes in Facebook communities first collect a lot of comments, and then their content is transformed by replacing text, photos, or adding links to garbage sites.

The first five posts with the hashtag #againstsanctions on Twitter were posted from suspicious or fake accounts, according to fact-checker MythDetector. Europeans seem to have started posting photos of empty plates with the message that everyone ate the sanctions.

The board of the joint-stock company "Khersonoblenergo" (JSC), operating in accordance with Ukrainian legislation, reported that again the organization has nothing to do with the distribution system operator "Khersonoblenergo" JSC and draws funds from consumers in the Kherson region. Both the newly created company and its website are located in Moscow. The Ukrainian company also reminded that all electricity supplied to the Kherson region is supplied exclusively from the territory of Ukraine and must be paid exclusively to Ukrainian accounts.

This was reported by the spokesman of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, Serhii Bratchuk. Fraudsters send letters of appeal in personal messages to managers of many enterprises, private individuals, and the e-mail address of companies and organizations. In the letter, allegedly from Odesa OVA, signed by Maksym Marchenko, they are asked to participate in the humanitarian aid program of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and provide details for the transfer of funds. Fraudsters also write the amount to be transferred by the entrepreneur, allegedly for the purchase of military ammunition and equipment. The letter also states that "the actions have been coordinated with the President of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine." This letter is fake.

Russian media are spreading information that a foreign journalist is allegedly conducting an "independent" investigation into the deaths of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenivka. As the Russian publication Insider writes, NTV has already shown material about "independent journalist Adrian Boke", who is "one of the few who tells the truth about Donbas to the world". He was also introduced as an expert in war crimes investigations.

Boke is neither a journalist nor an expert. He is a former military man who lied too much during his service in the French army. The French publication Liberation wrote about it. He visited Ukraine from the beginning of the great war under the guise of a volunteer, and then went to Europe to tell that "Bucha is a stage" and that he is a witness to "crimes by the Nazis from Azov." The StopFake publication conducted its investigation of Boke's visit to Ukraine, he did not provide any evidence of "crimes" to anyone; I was simply not physically in Buchi; does not understand Ukrainian or Russian, so he could hardly understand what his "friends from Azov" were talking about. With whom he seemed to befriend as much as two days of his stay in Lviv.

His lies were repeatedly refuted by journalists of various publications, but Russian propaganda continues to use him. This time he has already announced that he has "evidence" that it was a Ukrainian missile that hit the POW camp.

Bokeh is another example of how Russian propaganda works: it constantly uses supposedly foreign journalists to spread its messages to a Western audience.