Ukraine

A Facebook post refers to Mariupol as a “city in Russia,” however, according to international law, it is a city in Ukraine, which is under the occupation of Russia. Russia kept it under siege for almost 3 months, during which it destroyed…

The post manipulatively claims most Ukrainian refugees have taken shelter in the aggressor Russia and that more refugees have moved there than in the Western countries — United States, Great Britain, Poland, and Germany combined. However,…

In parts of Ukraine, the Russian language is rather present, while the post spreads a false claim from a Macedonian website that the Ukrainian MP Nataliya Pipa proposed a law according to which children will be punished if they speak…

A Facebook post shares a clip, claiming it shows how Ukraine, led by Zelensky, violates religious freedoms and beats priests. However, no priests are beaten in the clip, it is actually a fight between two religious communities over the…

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A Facebook post congratulates Russian President Putin on his 72nd birthday, claiming that without him, Macedonia, and even Orthodoxy, of which he is supposedly the leader or czar, would not even exist. It is manipulation of the national and…

A Facebook post spreads panic, telling members of the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia to pack for the front because it “looks like” NATO will join the war in Ukraine. The post supports this with a statement by the Croatian…

With the message that Russia will achieve the goals in Ukraine that were outlined by the aggression and invasion in February 2022 and the annexation of the regions to Russia on September 30 of the same year “because the truth was on…

The Anglo-Saxon world does not fight against Christians and Muslims, nor is it an instigator of the war in Ukraine and Palestine. Both Muslims and Christians live in the Western countries, as well as members of other religious communities…

In the post we are reviewing Ukraine is blamed to be at war with Russia, even though it was Russia that carried out an unprovoked military invasion of Ukrainian territory, forcing the country to defend itself. In those self-defense efforts,…

Contrary to what is stated in the post we are reviewing, there is no evidence that the man in the video was killed allegedly because he refused to be mobilized. On the contrary, the only thing that is certain is that there was a conflict…

Numerous international organizations, as well as fact-checkers from Ukraine agree that on the Internet, especially on Telegram, unreliable, staged video materials with paid actors have been created, with the sole purpose of undermining the…

A post on the social network Threads, with no evidence, accuses NATO of aggression against the Kursk Region of Russia and compares it to Napoleon and Hitler, when in fact, it was the military of Ukraine, which is not a NATO member, that…

The USA did not stage a coup d'état in Ukraine in 2014 and is not to blame for the depopulation of Ukraine, as the post we are analyzing wants to portray. It is true that Ukraine has had the highest death rate and the lowest birth rate in…

Manipulative Facebook posts display historical maps showing the territory of present-day Ukraine under the rule of its neighbors, suggesting it is an artificial creation composed of foreign lands. At the same time, the narrative that…