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By EUvsDisinfo Despite putting on a cool and victorious front, all Russian state outlets followed the Munich Security Conference with feverish interest. Could this be the moment when the pressure on Russia starts to ease? The pro-Kremlin outlets portrayed the conference as the beginning of the end for the EU and NATO. Mock the EU and the […]

By EUvsDisinfo The colder it gets, the more desperate pro-Kremlin disinformation becomes. This winter, the usual scare stories about Europe’s supposed mortal dependence on Russian gas are back, along with new attempts to weaponise climate change. With seasonal regularity, pro-Kremlin outlets bombard their audiences with claims that without Russian oil and gas, Europeans will freeze in […]

The Russian drone named “Geran-2”, a Shahed-type UAV, attacked the shelter over the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) on the night of 14 February 2025. This is confirmed by photographic and video evidence showing the engine and other parts of the drone found at the impact site, which are specific to […]

Metropolitan Epiphanius did not say anything like that. He only mentioned nuclear weapons in the context of Ukraine giving up its own arsenal in exchange for security guarantees. Pro-Russian sources are spreading news that during his visit to the United States, Metropolitan Epiphanius of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) allegedly called on partners to […]

The Kremlin’s mouthpieces are whip-sawing between excitement and trepidation over forthcoming US decisions. By Julia Davis, for CEPA Russia’s propaganda machine has its doubts about President Trump and whether he will deliver Ukraine’s hoped-for capitulation. And yet this tantalizing dream continues to course through every fiber of its being. The language of information warfare may be […]

By EUvsDisinfo Russia’s economy is under pressure, but the Kremlin does not want you to know it. Instead, Moscow has launched an all-out campaign of economic war propaganda. A few weeks ago, Vladimir Putin told Russians that the country’s economy is doing just fine. He even had some positive numbers to back it up: according to the IMF, Russia’s GDP […]

By EUvsDisinfo Opinion articles and editorial commentaries on RIA Novosti often border on obvious propaganda. The Russian state-owned news agency uses them to try to convince Russians that countless enemies surround the Motherland, Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is justified, and a glorious future awaits the Russian people. From stock photos to AI generated […]

The grant in question covered an educational competition for student projects on media literacy and countering Russian propaganda Pro-Russian sources are spreading a screenshot from the USAID website, which allegedly proves that the agency funded Russophobic comments being written by students from Eastern Europe online and allocated almost $500,000 for this. The full title of […]

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has indeed funded a significant portion of Ukrainian media. However, the exact degree of dependence varied from outlet to outlet: some grants accounted for up to 100% of a media organization’s budget, while others were much smaller. Moreover, Ukrainian media receive support not only from USAID, but […]

The fake news and accompanying video were spread by a fake German news outlet created by propagandists specifically to spread disinformation. A widely circulated report claims that Volodymyr Zelensky has become the new owner of the Eagle’s Nest – a house in the Alps that the Nazi Party (NSDAP) gave to Hitler as a summer […]

The E!News portal never published such a story, and the widely circulated news is fake, debunked by both the media and the celebrities who visited Ukraine. Social media users, along with Russian media, are spreading claims that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) allegedly funded visits by Hollywood stars to Ukraine during the war. […]

The «news» story circulating online is fabricated to discredit USAID. Bloomberg has not published such stories on its website or social networks. General Brown Jr. has also not made such statements. Social media users are sharing a 40-second video with the Bloomberg logo, which claims that between 2020 and 2022, the United States Agency for […]

By EUvsDisinfo Putin is angling for another high-profile sit-down with Trump, but this time, the location and stakes are different. Behind the diplomatic bravado, we see a familiar playbook of strategic flattery, poorly veiled ultimatums, and lies after lies. The Kremlin is practically giddy with anticipation about a possible summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald […]

The social media company’s widespread overhaul of its content moderation policies will have a real-world negative impact, embolden authoritarian regimes, and put its own users at risk By Mark Scott, for DFRLab On January 7, 2025, Meta announced a wholesale change to how the company polices harmful, illegal and divisive content on Facebook and Instagram. The […]

A real estate company that sold the villa in October denied any connection between the buyer and Ukraine and refuted claims that a bunker was being built on the property Russian sources have spread a story claiming that Volodymyr Zelensky, through a shell company Aldorante LTD, has purchased a luxurious villa on the French island […]

By EUvsDisinfo Every year, shortly before midnight on 31 December, Vladimir Putin tells Russians that better times lie ahead, everything is going to be all right and Russia has only grown stronger in the last few years. In reality, his full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches its third anniversary and the Russian economy is in serious trouble. Rather than the […]

The Los Angeles Fire Department made a small donation of unusable equipment back in March 2022. It contained helmets, gloves, boots, medicines — not the powerful machinery needed to fight a fire of this scale. American entrepreneur John LeFevre published an angry post on the social network X (Twitter), in which he implied that the […]

By Serhii Kuzan, for UkraineAlert With Donald Trump set to return to the White House in the coming weeks, speculation is mounting that Ukraine and Russia may soon begin serious peace negotiations. However, there is very little sign that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to abandon his goal of subjugating Ukraine. Instead, the peace […]

The date on the screenshot circulating online is the result of a common technical glitch in Google search results when retrieving posts from Reddit. In reality, the photo was published on the site on December 26, 2024. Several pro-Russian sources claimed that the news about the Ukrainian military capturing the first North Korean soldier was […]

The main part of President Zelensky’s speech took place against the backdrop of the Mother Ukraine monument, which was illuminated in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The monument was lit in the colors of flags of other countries when the President spoke about Ukraine’s allies during the war, including the United States. Russian media […]