Russian Telegram channels are spreading a video in which a man says that Ukrainian stores sell dry rations intended for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the video, he shows soup packed in a khaki-colored vacuum-sealed bag as supposed evidence.

However, the label of the soup shown in the video differs from the label of the original dry rations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The manufacturer of the soup is the company Veres, which sells these products legally, and both civilians and military personnel can buy them in Ukrainian stores.

The packaging clearly indicates that the producer of the buckwheat soup with pork is Veres. This soup, along with other ready-made meals by Veres, is available for purchase at stores like Epicenter and other retail chains in Ukraine. Nowhere on the packaging does it state that the product is exclusively for military use.

While AFU rations do include liquid meals, the packaging of the Veres soup is distinctly different from the standard military rations. Ukrainian military ration packaging typically features a minimalist design with white labels and black text. The khaki-colored vacuum-sealed packaging in the video is the only resemblance to the AFU rations.

A purported December cover of TIME magazine is being circulated online, showing a nuclear mushroom cloud with the headline “Third World War First Nuclear War”. The post claims that unlike TIME, other outlets are intentionally stoking fear with headlines suggesting scenarios like Russia using nuclear weapons, NATO opening a second front, and the inevitability of World War III.

However, TIME magazine has not published an issue with such a cover. The official TIME website does not feature any such cover. As of the publication date of this clarification, TIME had announced only one December 2024 issue. Its cover features a photograph of Elon Musk, highlighting his achievements and potential future plans.

Additionally, a reverse image search on Google reveals that the nuclear mushroom cloud cover is primarily shared on pro-Russian Telegram channels. One such post links to a Telegram channel titled TIME | Finance. This is a closed, anonymous channel mimicking the visual style (name and logo) of the authentic TIME magazine.

Russian propaganda sources are spreading information claiming that the President's Office is preparing for elections. Allegedly, state institutions in the Kharkiv region have been sent questionnaires containing questions related to support for and approval of President Zelenskyi.

However, the President's Office does not have a specific department responsible for conducting surveys. If government agencies were to organize social surveys, they would most likely hire specialized companies capable of providing such services. The inaccuracies in the questions further suggest that the forms were fabricated.

For example, according to Ukrainska Pravda, the President's Office regularly commissions private, closed surveys from sociological services. Meanwhile, the alleged survey forms do not include the name or address of the organization conducting the survey. Instead, at the bottom of the form, the address of the President's Office — Bankova Street, 11 — is listed, which points to this being a fake.

Anonymous Telegram channels are spreading a photo of a school board with an announcement supposedly banning the combination of blue, red and white, as they make up the Russian flag. The photo states that violators will pay a fine.

But this is a fake announcement. No such order exists. Moreover, only Russian and pro-Russian sources are spreading this fake. There is no such news on official government pages, school resources or reliable media outlets.

The announcement states a ban on the use of these colors in drawings, clothing and stationery. However, there are many mistakes in the text:

— they wrote “connection”, although initially they used the correct phrase “combination of colors”;

— “in one origination” — most likely an incorrect derivation from the Russian phrase “in one composition”;

— the phrase “money funds” is incorrect in Ukrainian. Money and funds are synonyms and are not used together. This is an incorrect derivation from a Russian phrase.

Real official orders would not contain so many mistakes.

Russian media claim that the Pentagon has allegedly recognized Ukraine as one of the most corrupt countries, and claim that this is “an obstacle to the country’s integration with the EU and NATO”. In their reports, the creators of this fake content refer to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense.

In reality, the Russians distorted the context of the quarterly report presented by the Pentagon’s special inspector general for the period from July to September 2024. However, the document does indeed devote a separate section to anti-corruption activities in Ukraine.

The US Department of Defense did indeed emphasize that concerns about corruption and the rule of law in Ukraine could become a serious obstacle to the post-war economic recovery and the attraction of foreign investment.

The inspector also noted that corruption continues to complicate Ukraine’s efforts to achieve its aspirations for integration with the EU and NATO. It was these two sentences that the propagandists focused on, ignoring all further information about Ukraine’s significant anti-corruption progress, which is outlined by the Pentagon’s inspector general across four pages of the report (pages 66-70). In general, the document commends Ukraine’s efforts to reform its institutions.

The inspector reported that Ukraine has implemented reforms aimed at increasing transparency and accountability in areas such as defense procurement, corporate governance, human resource management, professional military education, logistics, and democratic civilian control over the military.

In the Russian segment of social media, users are spreading a claim that Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s company, Film Heritage Inc., allegedly purchased the Palace des Neiges hotel in Courchevel for €88 million. According to the propagandists, the hotel at the exclusive ski resort is now supposedly being prepared for renovation and reopening for the 2026-2027 winter season. As proof, they assert that information about the new owner has already been published on the hotel's website. This material was allegedly distributed by the French outlet Les Echos de la France.

However, Les Echos de la France is not a legitimate French media outlet but a “one-time” website created by malicious actors specifically to spread this narrative. Using the whois.com tool, which provides domain and IP address information, it was revealed that this domain was registered in late November 2024 on a Lithuanian server hosted by Hostinger.

This server has previously been identified in international fact-checking investigations, as Russian propaganda has used it multiple times to create fake websites for spreading disinformation.

The fake site, which was created just days earlier (on November 22), indeed claims that Film Heritage Inc. is the hotel's owner. However, no such mention appears on the legitimate hotel website. Neither any reputable Western media nor Monte-Carlo SBM - the business group that actually owns this property - reported any sales involving companies associated with Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

These so-called investigations into the property ownership of Ukrainian officials have become part of a systematic campaign to discredit them. This way, propagandists and Moscow-aligned entities aim to depict Ukraine as rife with corruption — which could further harm Ukraine’s European integration path, as combating and reducing corruption is one of the key requirements for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union.

Other similar fabricated cases which related to the acquisition of real estate with stolen funds include Zelenskyi allegedly purchasing a villa once owned by Hitler’s propaganda minister Goebbels for €8 million, and Zelenskyi’s mother-in-law supposedly acquiring a villa on the coast of Egypt using Western humanitarian aid intended for Ukraine.

Russian media is circulating an infographic that allegedly shows how Ukraine's territory has been entirely divided among various foreign companies.

“Everything has a price. The war in the DPR and LPR was, from the start, a war for resources for the West”, the creators of this fake content assert.

However, foreigners do not have access to Ukraine's land market. In 2020-2021, Ukraine passed a package of land reform laws, which included a compromise on granting foreigners access to the land market. This decision, however, requires approval through a nationwide referendum. Conducting such a referendum is impossible during martial law.

As Ukraine strives for EU membership, aligning its land legislation with EU laws represents the third and final stage of the land reform process. This reform aims to allow individuals and legal entities from EU member states to participate in Ukraine's land market, which is expected to benefit landowners the most.

In contrast, the reduction in arable land has been directly caused by Russia's military aggression against Ukraine. For example, the Kherson region, which accounted for 40% of Ukraine's annual vegetable harvest, has been severely impacted. Due to combat operations and the occupation of parts of the region, previously cultivated fields can no longer be used for their intended purpose. As a result, many entrepreneurs have been forced to relocate their businesses.

Thus, the rise in vegetable prices has no connection to Ukraine's pro-European path. Instead, it is a direct consequence of Russia's aggression. Propaganda efforts, however, aim to manipulate Ukrainian aspirations and frame the country’s distancing from Russia as the root cause of all issues, including the ongoing armed aggression.

Russian propaganda is spreading claims in the media about an alleged NATO plan to deploy troops in Ukraine, labeling it a “plan for occupation”. However, this information is not true.

This was reported by the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security. These fake narratives are based on statements from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service and are actively promoted by pro-Russian media outlets. In reality, the narrative of a Western “occupation” of Ukraine has been propagated by Moscow since the Revolution of Dignity. It is, in fact, Russia that has been violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity since 2014 and attempted a full-scale occupation in 2022. There is no evidence to support claims of such NATO plans. President Volodymyr Zelenskyi has repeatedly emphasized that Ukraine has no intention of involving NATO troops in the war against Russia, as this would contradict international law and the positions of NATO member states.

Such fakes are aimed at undermining Ukrainians' trust in their Western allies, destabilizing the unity between Ukraine and its partners.

Russian propagandists are spreading false claims that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi allegedly bought the Palace des Neiges hotel in Courchevel. According to them, the hotel has 70 rooms, a spa area, a swimming pool, and a restaurant, and its reopening is planned for 2026–2027, upon completion of renovations. However, this is a fake.

This was reported by the Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security. Its experts remind that such statements are part of a systematic Russian propaganda campaign, which since the beginning of the full-scale invasion has been circulating fakes that the Zelenskyi family is buying luxury real estate and luxury items. Previous alleged purchases include Sting’s villa, a royal residence in the UK, Goebbels' estate, and even Hitler's limousine.

These falsehoods have been repeatedly debunked as they lack any evidence. The goal of such manipulations is to discredit the President of Ukraine in the eyes of the public and international partners. The propaganda aims to create the illusion that the Ukrainian government is indulging in luxury and engaging in corruption during the war, allegedly misusing international aid. 

Russian sources are distributing a video about an alleged “instruction” for Danes on how to behave during a run-in with the Territorial Center of Recruitment and Social Support representatives. According to the plot of the video, the man allegedly received a corresponding memo at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Denmark in Ukraine. In the video, he was surprised when he read about “the possible use of physical force by the police and the Territorial Center of Recruitment”. At the same time, the main character of the plot tries to communicate in English, but does not use Danish at all.

In fact, this is a fake video, the VoxCheck project writes. The Embassy of the Kingdom of Denmark in Ukraine clarified to the VoxCheck team that the employees of the department did not provide such “recommendations” and have no relation to this video. Also, the text of the fake booklet is written in poor-quality Danish, and the “instruction” itself does not correspond to the official style of communication of the embassy.

The Danish embassy website mentions martial law and the temporary suspension of air traffic in its “Travel and Stay” section. However, there is no mention of the Territorial Center of Recruitment and Social Support or the police either there, or on the Visit Ukraine service portal.

Earlier, we recorded a similar fake by Russians about an alleged leaflet from the British Embassy in Ukraine, in which they recommend their citizens to flee from the Territorial Center of Recruitment and Social Support.

Russians often send their fellow citizens to the occupied territories of Ukraine to engage in propaganda and militarize Ukrainian children. One of those involved in this process in the occupied part of Kherson Region is Serafim Ivanov, a Russian citizen. This is reported by the Kherson Region media outlet Vhoru (Up).

He arrived in Kherson together with Russian propagandist Oleksandr Malkevych, who organized occupation television not only in Kherson (Tavria), but also in Melitopol (Za TV) and in the Donetsk region (Mariupol 24). The latter calls Ivanov an “information-patriotic driver” and an “information guard”.

Initially, Ivanov was appointed as the head of the public relations and promotion department at the TV and radio company “Tavria”. Later, in early November 2022, Ivanov claimed that based on this company, a branch of the “Youth Army”, which he subsequently led, was established. In addition, Ivanov serves as the head of the local branch of the Russian “educational” organization Knowledge in the occupied Kherson region. He is also a member of the fictitious Public Election Observation Headquarters and the Public Chamber in the occupied Kherson region.

On the eve of the liberation of Kherson by Ukrainian troops in November 2022, Ivanov fled to the left bank of the Dnipro river, where he continued to engage in the militarization of Ukrainian children and their propaganda processing.

In addition to promoting the “Great Patriotic War” and its symbols, such as the red flag, Ivanov conducts “courage lessons”, in which children undergo military training. The goal of these classes is to make Ukrainian children “defenders of the Fatherland-Russia”. It can be argued that this is preparation for the recruitment of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories into the Russian army. At the same time, such actions are prohibited by the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War: “Any pressure or propaganda aimed at ensuring voluntary enlistment in military service is prohibited”.

It is for such activities that Western countries have imposed sanctions on Serafim Ivanov. In addition, according to the GUR portal, Ivanov is involved in the transfer of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia under the pretext of “rehabilitation, rest and education”.

Pro-Russian Telegram channels are spreading information that Dmytro Savchenko, an officer of the 1st Separate Assault Battalion “Da Vinci” of the 67th 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade, allegedly criticized the interview of the President of Ukraine for the FoxNews channel, in which Volodymyr Zelenskyi spoke about the probable defeat of Ukraine in the event of a reduction in aid from the United States. The propagandists attribute the following quote to Savchenko: “We need to remind the [overdue one] that it is not the Americans who have been saving Ukraine since 2014. But Ukrainians - with their blood, their homes, their bodies, their savings”. The propagandists add that, allegedly, according to Savchenko, Zelenskyi usurped power after May 20, 2024 and continues to lie to Ukrainians.

In fact, this is another fake, Savchenko did not say anything of the sort. The propagandists refer to the unreliable Ukrainian media, which is known for publishing outright fake and unverified materials, in which numerous violations of journalistic standards can be traced. In addition, Savchenko did not publish any such information on his social media. And the words that the propagandists attribute to Savchenko were not repeated by any reliable sources.

This piece of disinformation is intended to fuel the Russian narrative about the “illegitimacy of Zelenskyi”. Previously, we recorded numerous fakes being spread as part of this narrative. In particular, we refuted the information that posters with the overdue - or “expired” - Zelenskyi allegedly appeared in Kyiv.

Russian propaganda resources are distributing a photo of an alleged instruction for schoolchildren in Ukraine, which explains how to properly kneel to greet a fallen Ukrainian defender from the front.

In fact, this instruction is fake, the Kherson region media outlet Vhoru (Up) reports. The reverse image search function on Google helped establish that the drawing from this instruction is being sold on several stock photo sites. The description of the drawing says that these are football players protesting on their knees against racism and police brutality. This is how they express support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

The propagandists also added an excerpt from the poem On the Shield by Facebook user Oksana Lesyk-Paduchak to the fake instruction. It was published on January 26, 2024. Presumably, an excerpt from this poem was placed on the instructions to give greater credibility to the fake photo and because of the poem’s mention of “Bandera’s flag”, one of the “favorite” words of Russian propaganda.

In the end, the photo of this instruction was not published in any reliable Ukrainian or foreign sources, but was only distributed in the pro-Russian segments of social media.

In Ukraine, people honor the memory of fallen soldiers by taking a knee. This is a voluntary gesture of respect. In many cultures, people also kneel to pray and ask for forgiveness. However, the creators of this fake put a negative connotation into this symbolic action, which on their photo instruction can be perceived as an act of submission, humiliation or weakness.

Earlier, we refuted the information that in Lviv, first-graders are forced to kneel to honor the memory of fallen defenders.

On November 29, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had allegedly shot down 10 ATACMS missiles in a week, adding this to the total “successes” in November: 15 ATACMS missiles and 37 HIMARS. Moreover, the Russian Defense Ministry regularly reports about the “destruction” of HIMARS launchers, the number of which has already exceeded the number received by Ukraine. However, this is not true.

This is reported by the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security. These kinds of statements are aimed at supporting Russia’s illusions, because Russian propaganda has long operated on the principle of quantitative exaggeration. For example, back in 2017, Serhii Shoihu reported on the “liberation” of 500,000 km² in Syria, although the area of ​​the country is only 185,000 km². At the same time, the real facts remain outside the official reports. November 2024 was the deadliest month for Russia since the start of the war: during that month the Russian army lost 45,720 soldiers, in both killed and wounded. But this data remains unnoticed by propagandists who focus on creating illusory victories.

Russian fake “reports” not only create a false picture of reality for domestic audiences, but are also designed to distract attention from Russia’s massive losses and failures on the front.

Russian propaganda claims on social networks and other media that GSC Game World, developers of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, has allegedly been cooperating with Ukrainian authorities to mobilize citizens. According to the propagandists, the game allegedly collects personal data of players, such as IP addresses, names, locations, including without their consent, and then transfers this information to Ukrainian military recruitment centers. This fake was accompanied by the use of the Wired magazine logo, which was supposed to give the information an appearance of authenticity. The propagandists also claim that the game development studio received funding from the Ukrainian government in exchange for such activities. However, this is fake news, as reported by the Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security.

In fact, the studio GSC Game World raised a significant amount of money ($800,000) in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine through crowdfunding, and transferred it to the Ukrainian charity foundation “Come Back Alive”. In response, Russia launched a campaign against the game, including releasing statements about the possibility of it being banned in Russia.

This case is another example of the spread of disinformation aimed at discrediting Ukrainian achievements, particularly in the field of video games. It is also a continuation of a campaign similar to the previously recorded disinformation about fake trailers from Netflix, called Matrioshka. The main goal of such fakes is to undermine trust in Ukraine and its initiatives on the world stage.

Russian propaganda sources are spreading a video allegedly created by Bellingcat. It says that in 2024 the BBC became the record holder for the number of fakes published among all the world media outlets — 2,000 fakes. In second and third place were CNN and Der Spiegel, respectively. As a result, Eliot Higgins, journalist and founder of Bellingcat, allegedly applied to the Guinness World Records, and the “record” is to be published in 2025.

This is fake news, writes VoxCheck. Bellingcat did not publish such a video on its official website or on any of its social media accounts. In addition, checking the audio fragment from the video using the artificial intelligence tool Hive Moderation showed that the voice acting had been created using a neural network.

According to Media Bias/Fact Check, the three mentioned publications (BBC, CNN, and Der Spiegel) have either a high or a mostly high level of accuracy of their materials. Also, foreign fact checkers did not report that these media outlets spread these alleged hundreds or even thousands of fakes.

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report states that according to the results of a survey of citizens of the UK, the US and Germany, the BBC has the most trust among the British — 62%, CNN — 48% among Americans, and Der Spiegel — 54% among Germans.

Earlier, we refuted claims that a Bellingcat investigation had proven Andrii Yermak paid Time Magazine for a spot in its list of The Most Influential People of the year.

Russian Telegram channels have shared a photo from the alleged website of a Ukrainian funeral service that transports the dead around the world. Propagandists write that it has been operating since 2022 and claims “hundreds of satisfied customers”.

In fact, this information is not true, reports the VoxCheck project. Using the interface details in the screenshot that is being shared online, it was possible to find out that this is a screenshot of the website of the VIK funeral home. The company does provide services for transporting the deceased both to and from Ukraine.

However, the corresponding page of the site has been edited – the original talks about the complexity of transporting bodies to other countries and the willingness to help with any kinds of issues. There is no section on the site that says “hundreds of satisfied customers”. Also, according to propagandists, the bureau has been operating since 2022, although the official website states that the bureau has been operating since 2016.

Earlier, we analyzed fake news about a funeral company from Cherkasy issuing leaflets with the inscription “take care of your husband in advance”.

Russian propaganda Telegram channels are circulating photos allegedly depicting a rally in Kyiv involving the wives and children of Ukrainian military personnel participating in the Kursk operation. At the rally, children of Ukrainian soldiers are supposedly holding posters with slogans “Syrskyi, where is our dad?” and “Syrskyi, bring dad home!”.

This is actually fake news, writes the VoxCheck project. Thanks to Google’s reverse image search function, it was possible to find out that the photos distributed by propagandists are fabricated. In the original photos the inscriptions on the posters are different. The actual slogans were “For the Armed Forces of Ukraine!” and “Buy toys to help soldiers!”. One of the photos was taken in April 2022 in Odesa, the other in September 2022 in Kyiv. So in fact, the children from the photos did not rally against the AFU operation in the Kursk region, but collected funds to support Ukrainian fighters.

Earlier, we disproved the information that people in Zhytomyr had protested against Zelenskyi.

Russian propagandists are distributing a photo of a supposedly special offer in one of the Ukrainian clothing stores. The information sign allegedly states: "For veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a 50% discount on the purchase of one boot."

However, this information is not true, the VoxCheck project reports. Using the Google reverse image search function, a video with this advertisement was found. The video shows that information about the promotion is posted in a fitting room of a store. However, the name of this store is not visible either on the sign or in the frame, despite the fact that the store name is usually duplicated in the announcement of the promotion.

Also, the design of the advertisement often uses the store’s corporate fonts and colors. However, the advertisement about the alleged discount for disabled military personnel has an extremely minimalistic and non-commercial look. Anyone could print such an ad and hang it in a fitting room, and then shoot a video and pass it off as a real campaign.

After all, the ad used the word “disabled”, although the correct word would be “a person with a disability”. And customers from Ukraine did not report existence of such a campaign. Instead, the primary source of this video is a Russian propagandist Armen Hasparian.

Earlier, reports were refuted regarding claims that young people in Kyiv were invited to “lie in a coffin”, and that individuals of draft age were offered a discount.

Pro-Russian Telegram channels are spreading information that the commander of the 154th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Shcherbyna, allegedly uses the services of a Ukrainian fortune teller, Mariia Tykha. According to the propagandists, before being sent to the front line, the soldiers of the 154th brigade can allegedly “find out their fate” for an additional fee, on average up to a thousand hryvnia. The fortune teller predicts a successful operation, from which they will definitely emerge unharmed.

In fact, this is a fake, the VoxCheck project reports. There is no evidence that Mariia Tykha provides services to the commander of the 154th separate mechanized brigade, Oleksandr Shcherbyna. He has never mentioned any fortune tellers on his social media pages.

In addition, the primary source of this information is the pro-Russian Telegram channel Ukropskyi Fresh, whose messages regularly discredit the Ukrainian military.

Mariia Tykha is indeed involved in astrology, extrasensory perception, and calls herself a witch. On various YouTube channels, the woman thinks about upcoming Russian shelling on Tarot cards, predicts a “Maidan” in Moscow, the end of the war, etc. But not all of her predictions come true. Both astrology and extrasensory perception are pseudoscience, and predictions from such pseudo-experts are not supported by facts, VoxCheck adds.

Earlier, we recorded a fake about the SBU allegedly detaining tarologists, fortune tellers and psychics who predict Russia's military successes.

The pro-Russian segment of the network is spreading information that one of the Ukrainian cafes allegedly has a menu with different prices for civilians and military personnel. These menus are allegedly called “standard” and “for the military” respectively, with similar dishes and inflated prices for the second category. As “proof” of this, the propagandists add a corresponding photo.

However, this information is not true, as reported by the VoxCheck project.

Using Google's reverse image search function, it was possible to find out that this news is only being spread by Russian propaganda resources. The probable original source of the photo is the Russian Telegram channel Actually in Kherson. Neither the name of the establishment that allegedly has such a menu nor its address are known. Most likely, this is simply an edited photo or a staged shot.

Usually, such cases of discrimination against Ukrainian military personnel gain publicity in the media and social networks. However, no reliable Ukrainian publications reported on this incident.

Earlier, we refuted the information that some Ukrainian stores had introduced a 20% tax for Territorial recruitment and social support center employees.

Russian Telegram channels are distributing what appears to be a new cover of the Spanish magazine El Jueves. It features a cartoon of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, who shot himself because of Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, and the corresponding title: “World War III is postponed”.

However, this is a fake, writes the VoxCheck project. The cover of El Jueves magazine, distributed by propagandists, is not real. It shows issue number 2406. In November, the magazine published three weekly issues under this number (No. 2406-01, No. 2406-02, No. 2406-03). And none of the covers of these issues mention Ukraine, Zelenskyi, or World War III.

El Jueves is a Spanish satirical magazine published weekly and featuring caricatures on its covers.

During the full-scale war, we have documented at least eight fake El Jueves magazine covers created by propagandists. A detailed analysis of each fabricated cover can be found here.

Russian propaganda sources are distributing a video online, where allegedly Ukrainian soldiers from the Azov Brigade are demonstratively burning several books by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz, The Art of the Deal. In the video, the Ukrainian fighters allegedly call Trump a “traitor” and a “coward” and say that they do not need his peace plan. The propagandists comment on this video, saying that the Ukrainian army has recognized Trump as a “fairy president” and has started smoking his books in protest.

In fact, the video being distributed online is staged. Several facts indicate this. Firstly, the voiceover is in broken Ukrainian and the man has a noticeable accent. Secondly, it was possible to find out that this video is being distributed primarily in the pro-Russian segment of the network.

Also, Ukrainian volunteer Mykhailo Lavrovskyi on his page on the social network X, pointing out the absurdity of this video statement, rightly notes that the man in the video in Ukrainian military uniform is wearing an old chevron of the Azov Brigade that has not been used for a long time. That is, it is probably a trophy uniform that Russian soldiers once acquired in battle and wore to create this video fake.

After all, we have already recorded a number of similar Russian decrees in which Ukrainian military personnel allegedly protested against Trump.

A Russian Telegram channel is spreading information that Kyiv schools have begun replacing portraits of the current US President Joe Biden with portraits of the newly elected President Donald Trump. As “proof” of this, the propagandists are adding corresponding photos, allegedly taken in one of the Kyiv schools.

In fact, this information is not true, the VoxCheck project reports. The photos distributed by Russian propagandists are likely staged. There is no indication that they did anything in the Ukrainian school. It is even more surprising that on the stand dedicated to Britain, among the portraits of Elizabeth II and William Shakespeare, they placed photos of the presidents of the USA and Ukraine. In the end, it was possible to find out that these images were distributed exclusively in the pro-Russian segment of the network, which gives additional grounds to believe that this is a fake.

In Ukraine, the practice of placing portraits of presidents in school classrooms is not widespread. Back in 2016, the then Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Serhii Kvit, declared that it was unacceptable to place portraits of ministers and other civil servants in educational institutions. The Ministry of Education and Science recommended, first of all, to place state symbols, portraits of historical figures or graduates that educational institutions are proud of.

Earlier, we analyzed the lie that Trump was added to the “Peacemaker” database.

Russian propagandists on anonymous Telegram channels are actively spreading information that in one of the episodes of the animated series “The Simpsons” they predicted that “the Ukrainian ambassador to Great Britain will become president”, hinting at Valerii Zaluzhnyi. They say that this is evidenced by a screenshot from the cartoon. However, this is a fake.

In fact, the propagandists superimposed this caption on the original footage. We are talking about the second episode of the sixteenth season of the animated series, according to which Marge Simpson, the main character, receives an invitation to a cooking competition. At this moment, she reads a newspaper, which actually says “Father of eight children has disappeared”, and not the phrase that the propagandists are talking about.

By replacing real facts with absurd statements, they are trying to ridicule Ukraine and its leadership, in particular, Valerii Zaluzhnyi. The use of a popular cartoon series creates a false information background aimed at distracting from current problems. The fake reinforces absurd conspiracy theories about external control of Ukraine and a “new world order” in order to justify Russian aggression.