Does Video Show Ukrainian Armed Forces Training Child Soldiers? // Snopes
Source published on: June 16, 2023 /
Social media users started sharing a video that supposedly showed Ukrainian child soldiers trained to fight in the war with Russia.
Indexed on 2023-06-16 12:00 // Categories: Fact checks / debunkings and Ukraine
Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Is Underway. How It’s Going Isn’t Clear // TIME.com
Source published on: June 16, 2023 /
TIME.com article from June 2023, surveying the state of Ukraine’s summer counter-offensive against Russia.
Indexed on 2023-07-31 11:54 // Categories: Counteroffensive 2023 and Ukraine
Claim that a Mexican cartel has weapons sent to Ukraine lacks evidence // PolitiFact
Source published on: June 15, 2023 /
An U.S. podcast host misrepresented a Mexican TV newscast by saying that a Javelin the United States sent to Ukraine ended in the hands of a Mexican cartel.
That’s not what the Spanish-speaking anchor said.
Experts also say the supposed cartel member is carrying an AT4, not a Javelin.
A TikTok video claimed to show a cartel member in Mexico carrying a Javelin that the U.S. sent to Ukraine.
We found no evidence that a Mexican cartel obtained U.S. weapons destined for Ukraine. Experts told PolitiFact that the man in the video is carrying what appears to be an AT4 weapon, not a Javelin.
We rate this claim False.
Indexed on 2023-06-15 12:00 // Categories: Aid to Ukraine, Fact checks / debunkings, International community, Mexico, Military aid, Misconceptions, and USA
No, Ukraine’s military is not camouflaging tanks as houses // PolitiFact
Source published on: June 14, 2023 /
An October 2020 article from the news outlet RBC-Ukraine said the car was decorated to look like a Ukrainian village house. The car motor was hidden, and the driver’s seat was built into the floor. Side mirrors that would normally be on a car were replaced with cameras inside the structure, RBC-Ukraine reported.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, there have been numerous false and misleading claims about the war and both countries’ military units.
We rate the claim that a Ukrainian tank is using a house as camouflage False.
Indexed on 2023-06-14 12:00 // Categories: Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Media taken out of context, Methods, Misconceptions, Russia, and Ukraine
Did Members of Ukraine’s Armed Forces Help Make This Bollywood Video? // Snopes
Source published on: June 13, 2023 /
A viral tweet described the video as “war propaganda in the style of Bollywood dance videos.”
Indexed on 2023-06-13 12:00 // Categories: Fact checks / debunkings, India, International community, and Ukraine
Does Video Show Proof That Ukraine Drowns Its Citizens on Purpose? // Snopes
Source published on: June 9, 2023 /
Social media users shared an old video to spread a false narrative about the Nova Kakhovka dam explosion in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Indexed on 2023-06-09 12:00 // Categories: Fact checks / debunkings, Russia, and Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is real and ongoing, despite nonsense social media posts // PolitiFact
Source published on: June 9, 2023 /
That’s because it trafficks in misinformation about the war that we’ve encountered before. Previous posts have falsely claimed that various photos are evidence the war is fake, that video clips prove it’s staged, that it’s scripted. None of that was accurate, and neither is the claim that there’s no war in Ukraine.
It defies more than a year of news coverage from reporters with media outlets from around the world giving dispatches from Ukraine, describing the front lines, the lives of civilians and more.
We rate this post Pants on Fire!
Indexed on 2023-06-09 12:00 // Categories: Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Misconceptions, Narratives, Russia, The war is a hoax, and Ukraine
Did Trapped Zoo Animals Drown After the Nova Kakhovka Dam Collapse? // Snopes
Source published on: June 8, 2023 /
Russia initially claimed that the story was false because the city in question â which has a zoo â did not, in fact, have a zoo.
Indexed on 2023-06-08 12:00 // Categories: Fact checks / debunkings, Russia, Ukraine, and War crimes
Tucker Carlson Says Ukraine Considered Destroying Kakhovka Dam // Newsweek
Source published on: June 8, 2023 /
Carlson’s conclusion that the Ukrainian government had considered destroying the dam misrepresents what was actually written. It might also fail to consider the perceived counterintuitive nature of such a move at a potentially pivotal moment in the conflict.
Indexed on 2023-06-08 12:00 // Categories: Disinformation, Fact checks / debunkings, Misconceptions, Russian propaganda, Ukraine, and War crimes
Are These Images from Nova Kakhovka’s Administrative Center After Dam Collapse? // Snopes
Source published on: June 6, 2023 /
Areas downstream from the Nova Kakhovka Dam, presently in Russian hands, are at risk of extreme flooding following its collapse.
Indexed on 2023-06-06 12:00 // Categories: Russia and Ukraine
Does This Video Show the Nova Kakhovka Dam Explosion in Ukraine? // Snopes
Source published on: June 6, 2023 /
As the Russian and Ukrainian governments blamed each other for the incident, this footage swept social media under misleading pretenses.
Indexed on 2023-06-06 12:00 // Categories: Russia and Ukraine
Before-and-after photos show Ukraine’s swift restoration of Bucha, once a byword for the horrors of Russian occupation // Business Insider
Source published on: June 5, 2023 /
More than a year has passed since Russian troops invaded the town of Bucha in Ukraine. Serhiy Nuzhnenko was one of the first photojournalists to enter Bucha in the midst of the invasion. His before-and-after images show its striking restoration and the resilience of its residents.
Indexed on 2023-09-19 12:54 // Categories: Attacks on civilians, Bucha, Genocide, Genocide vs Ukraine (2022-), Russia, Ukraine, and War crimes
Did Lindsey Graham Say, ‘The Russians Are Dying – It’s the Best Money We’ve Ever Spent’? // Snopes
Source published on: May 30, 2023 /
A video supposedly showed the senator from South Carolina making the statement to Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Indexed on 2023-05-30 12:00 // Categories: Fact checks / debunkings, Russia, and Ukraine
Did Ukrainian Military Drones Target Residential Buildings in Moscow in May 2023? // Snopes
Source published on: May 30, 2023 /
Russian authorities attributed a May 30, 2023, drone attack in Moscow to Ukrainian forces. Ukraine has denied direct involvement.
Indexed on 2023-05-30 12:00 // Categories: Attacks on civilians, Russia, Ukraine, and War crimes
This is the ‘America First’ case for supporting Ukraine // Washington Post
Source published on: May 30, 2023 /
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.
Indexed on 2023-05-30 12:00 // Categories: Aid to Ukraine, China, Escalation / WWIII, European Union, Germany, International community, Misconceptions, NATO, Ukraine, and USA