On May 21, the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Ukraine, Melinda Simmons, shared a photo on her Twitter page with a demonstration burning of textbooks on the history of Ukraine and compared it to Nazism. In comments, pro-Russian accounts accused her of spreading fake. The photo was first published in July 2019 and depicted the burning of books in Kaliningrad. It had nothing to do with textbooks on Ukrainian history.

The ambassador distributed an original photo of the burning of books on Ukrainian history in Crimea in March 2010. Using the image search program, StopFake experts could find the earliest publications of this image on the Internet. They were taken in 2014.

An article from January 7, 2014, on the Censor.net website, is devoted to the torchlight procession of Russian nationalists in Crimea, who called for "expelling, sweeping away once and for all" Euromaidan.

"However, it was later established that the action to burn textbooks on Ukrainian history and other literature took place in March 2010. "Russian communities in Crimea, the «Russkyy blok,» and Natalia Vitrenko's party called on the newly appointed Minister of Education of Ukraine Dmytro Tabachnyk to remove history books from the school curriculum put into circulation by former Minister Ivan Vakarchuk," Censor.net reported.

The participants of the action burned books "Modern History of Ukraine," "History of Ukraine," and Yaroslav Hasek's novel "The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik," translated into Ukrainian and physics textbooks. The article emphasizes that representatives of Russian communities regularly held similar anti-Ukrainian actions. Read more.