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  • Fact Check: The Ukrainian City Of Ochakiv Is NOT Home To A NATO Base

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    Is it true that Russia destroyed a NATO base in the Ukrainian city of Ochakiv? No, it's not true. Not a single NATO facility has ever existed in Ukraine. The Ochakiv naval base belongs to Ukraine, not NATO. While it was reported that Russians shelled the base on more than one occasion, a video of its purported destruction contains unrelated…

    • Jun 24, 2022
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: The Ukrainian City Of Ochakiv Is NOT Home To A NATO Base Ukrainian base
  • Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Russian Plane Crashing Due To Missile In June 2022

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    Did a Russian airplane get hit with a missile, killing 50 people, in 2022? No, that's not true: A fatal plane incident happened on May 6, 2019, before the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian war. Forty-one people died as a passenger plane crash-landed at a Moscow airport. Surviving passengers suggested that the crash happened because of a lightning strike that hit the plane.…

    • Jun 22, 2022
    • by: Marlo Lee
    Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Russian Plane Crashing Due To Missile In June 2022 2019 Story
  • Fact Check: Poland Did NOT Annex Ukraine Via Tax Office Data Contract

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    Is it true that at the beginning of June 2022 Poland annexed Ukraine? No that's not true. Such posts on social networks began to appear after the publication of a press release from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, in which the alleged state contract for the construction in Poland of a backup data processing center of the Ukrainian tax service…

    • Jun 17, 2022
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: Poland Did NOT Annex Ukraine Via Tax Office Data Contract Extrapolation
  • Fact Check: This Azov Document Does NOT Prove That 70% Of Mariupol Residents Are Loyal To Russia

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    By Uliana Malashenko Is it true that a "classified" Azov document proves that over two-thirds of the Mariupol population support Russia? No, that's not true: The link to the English-language article by the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) did not contain any evidence to support the claim. Multiple discrepancies cast doubts on the authenticity of the shared document allegedly…

    • Jun 14, 2022
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: This Azov Document Does NOT Prove That 70% Of Mariupol Residents Are Loyal To Russia Not Documented
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