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Shayan Sardarizadeh
@Shayan86
A video of Artem Bonov, a Ukrainian neo-Nazi, has gone viral in Russian social media with claims he's deputy chief of Kyiv police. The full list of deputy heads of Kyiv police can be found online and Bonov is not among them, neither has he ever held a post in Kyiv police.
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It's day 30 of Russia-Ukraine war. This video with 350,000 views claims to show Russian troops mistakenly blowing themselves up, misleading many. The blast is taken from the video of a jihadi being hit in Syria in 2015 while recording a piece to camera. Fact-checked by
@hoaxeye
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It's day 31 of war in Ukraine. This video has been going viral in pro-Ukrainian circles with claims it shows Ukrainian forces shooting down four Russian helicopters. The footage is from the military video game Arma 3.
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It's day 32 of Russia-Ukraine war. "Fake war" conspiracists claim this CNN report of a firefighter in Lviv wearing a suit bering Edmonton on the back shows the report is not from Ukraine. But Edmonton firefighters confirm the suits were donated to Ukrainians by them.
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It's day 33 of war in Ukraine. This video of a Slovak opposition MP pouring water on Ukraine's flag is being shared with claims "Slovakia stands with Russia". It shows a rowdy debate on 8 February, before the war, on a defence pact with the US, fact-checked by
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It's day 36 of Russia-Ukraine war. This document posted by a major Anonymous account claims to show a Russian order to film propaganda videos on Ukrainians mistreating prisoners of war. But the signature on it was taken from a Russian website that offers advice on signatures.
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It's day 38 of Russia-Ukraine war. A viral tweet by Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko claims to show fighter pilot Natalia, 28, who she says has died during battle. It actually shows Olesya Vorobey, a Ukrainian soldier who won a beauty contest in Luhansk in 2016.
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It's day 39 of Russia-Ukraine war. 1) Dozens of Russian embassy and government accounts as well as pro-Kremlin activists are claiming videos coming out of Bucha are fake or staged because the bodies can be seen moving or sitting up. So, Let's take their claims one by one.
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2) It's important to note we do not know at this stage what exactly happened to those civilians lying dead on the streets of Bucha. That requires a separate investigation. We are merely focusing on Russian claims that the videos are fake or the bodies are actually alive.
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3) First is the claim a dead civilian's arm is moving, showing them to be alive. Slow down the video, as
@AuroraIntel
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Shayan Sardarizadeh
@Shayan86
WARNING: GRAPHIC 6) In this high-resolution video featuring Wladimir Klitschko you can see the body in the wing mirror video along the red and yellow pavement we debunked earlier. Again, a dead civilian, not a "crisis actor", as Russia claimed.
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It's day 41 of Russia-Ukraine war. Russia's
@iaeaorg
enovy Mikhail Ulyanov repeats the false claim that no bodies were found in Bucha until 3 April. Satellite images show bodies in Bucha on 19 March and video of corpses on Yablunska Street was posted in the evening of 1 April.
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