Are These Images from Nova Kakhovka’s Administrative Center After Dam Collapse?
Areas downstream from the Nova Kakhovka Dam, presently in Russian hands, are at risk of extreme flooding following its collapse.
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Does This Video Show the Nova Kakhovka Dam Explosion in Ukraine?
As the Russian and Ukrainian governments blamed each other for the incident, this footage swept social media under misleading pretenses.
“It collapsed on its own” – Five Russian media fakes about the destruction Kakhovka…
Ukraine did not destroy its own hydroelectric power station, creating a man-made disaster on its territory. Since 2022, the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant has been under Russian occupation - it was the Russian army that mined the plant's units back in the autumn of 2022. On June 6, 2023, simultaneously with massive missile attacks on Ukrainian cities, the Russian army carried out a remote detonation of the Kakhovka plant.
Fake: Kakhovka Dam Explosion Captured on Video
The video currently being circulated online has nothing to do with the June
2023 terrorist attack on the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam. The
video dates from November 2022, when Russian troops retreating from the
Kherson region severely damaged the Kakhovka dam.
Nova Kakhovka dam breach: Old image resurfaces to falsely illustrate today’s damage – Truth or Fake
An image from a November 2022 explosion in the Nova Kakhovka dam is going viral. Some users claim that it shows the precise moment Russian forces blew up the dam, while others say it shows the destruction of the dam by Ukrainian armed forces. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.
No evidence Mexican cartel obtained US weapons destined for Ukraine
Social media users are claiming Mexican TV reported that anti-tank missile systems the United States sent to Ukraine ended up in the hands of a Mexican cartel. This is false; the claims are based on a mistranslation of the segment, which showed a man sporting apparent gang insignia carrying the same type of military-grade weapon used in Ukraine -- but did not say the artillery was diverted from Kyiv.
Fact check: Viral video of the Kakhovka dam explosion is old
Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine. A viral video that purports to show the explosion of the dam is, in fact, of a 2022 blast.
This is the ‘America First’ case for supporting Ukraine
The lesson of the 20th century is that putting “America First” requires us to project strength and deter our enemies from launching wars of aggression — so that U.S. troops to don’t have to fight and die in another global conflagration. The invasion in Ukraine was a failure of deterrence. Only by helping Ukraine win can we prevent further deterrence failures.
If we help Ukraine prevail, we can rewrite the narrative of U.S. weakness; restore deterrence with China; strike a blow against the Sino-Russian alliance; decimate the Russian threat to Europe; increase burden-sharing with our allies; improve our military preparedness for other adversaries; stop a global nuclear arms race; dissuade other nuclear states from launching wars of aggression; and make World War III less likely.
The “America First” conclusion: Helping Ukraine is a supreme national interest.
Did Ukrainian Military Drones Target Residential Buildings in Moscow in May 2023?
Russian authorities attributed a May 30, 2023, drone attack in Moscow to Ukrainian forces. Ukraine has denied direct involvement.
Did Lindsey Graham Say, ‘The Russians Are Dying – It’s the Best Money We’ve Ever Spent’?
A video supposedly showed the senator from South Carolina making the statement to Volodymyr Zelenskyy.