Sunday, April 27, 2025

Factcheck for Facebook_EN

Fake: Zelenskyy Buys Controlling Interest in Northam Platinum Ltd – South Africa’s Largest Platinum...

This claim is false and has been officially denied by company representatives. Social media users have circulated yet another story claiming that Ukrainian President Volodymyr...

Fake: Ukrainians in Sweden Resort to Sex Work and Infect Local Residents with HIV

In 2023, only 50 cases of HIV were recorded among Ukrainians in Sweden. The news about sex work, through which the infection is allegedly...

Fake: Russian Forces Attacked Restaurant with NATO Troops in Kryvyi Rih

On 4 April 2025, Russian forces launched a ballistic missile attack on a residential area in Kryvyi Rih. The missile, equipped with a cluster...

Fake: Ukraine Seeks to Buy Uranium from Niger to Develop Nuclear Weapons

This claim, made by propagandists citing African media, is false - mainly because Defence Minister Rustem Umerov did not visit Niger in November 2023....

Fake: BBC Labels Valerii Zaluzhnyi ‘Next President of Ukraine’

The claim that BBC News labelled a photo of Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, as the "next president of Ukraine" is unfounded...

Fake: Ukrainian Soldier Admits that Ukrainian Forces ‘Killed Children in Sudzha’

The claim circulating on Russian platforms that a Ukrainian soldier allegedly confessed to killing a child near Sudzha is either fake or at least...

Fake: Ukraine’s Presidential Office Claims EU ‘Owes’ Ukraine for Security

The propagandists fabricated a screenshot of a Ukrainian news article with a quote purporting to be from Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head...

Fake: France Refused to Provide CIA with Information on Ukrainian Corrupt Officials — Euronews

Neither Euronews nor any other trustworthy source has reported such an incident. Pro-Russian sources have been running headlines like "France covers up for Ukrainian corruption"...

Manipulation: Ukraine ‘Violated Obligation to Maintain Energy Ceasefire’

Russia itself has not stopped attacking Ukraine's energy and civilian infrastructure for a single day - neither after Zelenskyy's promise to stop such attacks,...

Fake: The French Foreign Ministry Denies Macron Called Zelenskyy

No video with such content was published by the French news channel BFMTV. Pro-Russian sources claim that the French Foreign Ministry has allegedly denied that...