War in March 2022
All our fact checks concerning the Russia/Ukraine war. We also have a Russian and a Ukrainian language version of our site with fact checks in those languages.
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Thursday, March 31, 2022
- Fact Check: Russian Consulate In Montreal Is NOT On 'Avenue Zelensky'
- Fact Check: Military Singing Group Were NOT Arrested In Russia In 2022
- Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Graves For Russian Soldiers Who Died In Ukraine -- It's From 2021
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Monday, March 28, 2022
- Fact Check: Ukraine Does NOT Grow 25% Of World's Wheat - It's Only 3%
- Fact Check: BBC News Did NOT Broadcast Stock Footage Of Military Scenes As If Live War Coverage
- Fact Check: Edmonton Man Did NOT Fight Fires In Ukraine -- It's Ukrainian In Donated Gear
- Fact Check: Ukraine President Zelenskyy Did NOT Sing Cover Of Lennon's 'Imagine' -- That's Alejandro Manzano
Saturday, March 26, 2022
- Fact Check: Ukrainian Medals For 'Seizure Of Crimea' NOT Found in Kherson -- They're Counterfeits
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Prove Kyiv Sends Armed Children To The Front Lines
Friday, March 25, 2022
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Putin Beheaded Bioweapon Engineers In Ukraine
- Fact Check: Ukraine Gun Battle Is From 2018 NOT 2022
Thursday, March 24, 2022
- Fact Check: Canadian Sniper Wali Was NOT Killed In Ukraine -- He Continues Giving Video Interviews To Reporters Who Know Him
- Fact Check: NO Russian 16-Year-Old Was Fatally Beaten By Ukrainians in Germany
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
- Fact Check: NO Proof Of Ukrainian Forces Using Civilians As Human Shields In Mariupol
- Fact Check: This 'Witness' Account Of Theater Shelter Bombing Does NOT Match Mariupol's Geography
Monday, March 21, 2022
- Fact Check: Zelenskyy Video Filmed At Night Does NOT Prove That He is In Poland
- Fact Check: There's NO Evidence Brent Renaud Was An American Spy
Friday, March 18, 2022
- Fact Check: Russia Boycott, Keystone XL Stoppage Are NOT The Drivers Of Gas Price Hikes
- Fact Check: NATO Did NOT Launch More Than 10,000 Air Raids On Libya In 2011 With Over 500,000 Civilian Casualties
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Russian Soldiers In Ukraine -- They Are Kenya Defence Forces
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show US Paratroopers In Ukraine In 2022
Thursday, March 17, 2022
- Fact Check: Zelenskyy's Shirt Had Symbol Of Ukrainian Armed Forces -- NOT Infamous Iron Cross
- Fact Check: Russian Missiles Killed 35 Ukrainians, NOT 180 'Foreign Mercenaries' In Yavoriv
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Zelenskyy Surrendering -- It's A Low-Quality Deepfake
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
- Fact Check: Video Of Putin Ending The War Is NOT Real -- It's A 'Deepfake'
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 'FGM148 Javelin ... vs Russian Vehicles' -- It's Video Game Footage
- Fact Check: NO 'Battle' Over Chukchi Sea 'Today' Between Russian MIG-31 Fighter And US RC-135 Aircraft
- Fact Check: Video Footage of Ukrainian War Is NOT From 2022, It's From August 2014
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
- Fact Check: 'Ukraine Press Release About Joe Biden' Video Is NOT New -- It Is From 2020
- Fact Check: West Virginia Inspection Sticker On Car In Irpin, Ukraine, Is NOT An Improbability
Monday, March 14, 2022
- Fact Check: This IS Real Design For Ukrainian Stamp
- Fact Check: Compilation Video Does NOT Show Only Clips From Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Friday, March 11, 2022
- Fact Check: Gas Prices DON'T Show If US Sanctions Are Hurting Russia
- Fact Check: Real Patients Were Killed, Injured In Russian Bombing Of Mariupol Maternity Hospital
- Fact Check: Ukrainian Tank Video Was NOT Taken During 2022 Russia-Ukraine Conflict
- Fact Check: Zelenskyy And Wife Did NOT Sing 'Endless Love' Cover On YouTube
- Fact Check: Russia DID NOT 'Find Over 30 Biological Labs' In Ukraine 'Formed By The Pentagon'
- Fact Check: Russia DID NOT 'Uncover' 30 Bioweapon Labs In Ukraine -- Most Were In Former USSR
Thursday, March 10, 2022
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Nigeria Sent 'Over 5,500 Military Forces to Ukraine'
- Fact Check: These Documents Do NOT Confirm Kyiv Was Preparing an Offensive Operation Against Donbas
- Fact Check: Leonardo DiCaprio Did NOT Donate $10 Million To Ukraine Armed Forces
- Fact Check: NO F-22 Raptors Over Ukraine
- Fact Check: There Is NO Verifiable Evidence Of US-Funded Bioweapons Labs In Ukraine -- Video Misrepresents US Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
- Fact Check: Footage Of Hospital Attack WAS In Ukraine - But In Melitopol
- Fact Check: Video Shows US Training Exercises NOT Russian War In Ukraine
- Fact Check: Image Of Man Hugging Cat Was NOT Taken In Ukraine
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
- Fact Check: NO Evidence President Zelenskyy Left Kyiv In Early March 2022
- Fact Check: Russia Did NOT Go Back To Using A Gold Standard In Early March 2022
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Russia Has Given Humanitarian Aid To Ukraine
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
- Fact Check: Nathaniel Rothschild Did NOT Write To British Government Calling Putin 'The Most Dangerous Man Since The Defeat Of Hitler'
- Fact Check: Many US Megachurches DO Offer Relief And Support To The Ukrainian People
- Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Ukrainian Soldiers Praying During Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Monday, March 7, 2022
- Fact Check: NO Evidence NATO Laptop With Intelligence Found At Headquarters Of Ukrainian Nationalists -- Computer Is NATO Surplus
- Fact Check: NOT Russia Vs. Ukraine Tank Battle -- Video Shows Abrams Tank Training
- Fact Check: Video Of Putin's Hand Going Through Microphone Is NOT Proof Of Green Screen -- It's Due To Compressed Video
- Fact Check: NO Evidence That Putin Bombed 'Biden-Owned 200-Acre Villa' in Ukraine Or 'Biolabs & Pedophile Rings' -- Or That Any Of Those Exist in Ukraine
- Fact Check: Video Of Destroyed City Does NOT Show 'Present Situation' In Ukraine
Friday, March 4, 2022
- Fact Check: Alex Jones DID Predict War Months Ahead Of Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine In February 2022 -- But Said 'Smart Money Is On A War With China'
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show the Start of 'Russia vs NATO'
- Fact Check: Putin Did NOT Threaten Nigeria For Sending Troops To Ukraine During Russia-Ukraine Conflict
- Fact Check: 'Ukraine Now' Video Does NOT Show Ukraine -- It Shows Kentucky in 2021
Thursday, March 3, 2022
- Fact Check: Neither Zelenskyy NOR Putin Threatened To Send Troops To Ghana's Border In Response To 'Jokes' About Russia-Ukraine War
- Fact Check: 'Panther Of Kharkiv' Is NOT A Real Military Working Cat
- Fact Check: Putin Did NOT Tell Trump That Russian 'Spetznas' Liberated Child Trafficking Victims In Ukraine
- Fact Check: Image Is NOT A Before/After Of Kyiv's Independence Square Since Russian Invasion
- Fact Check: Ukrainians Did NOT Post A Russian Tank On eBay
- Fact Check: Putin Did NOT Announce During Russia-Ukraine Conflict That Part Of Pakistan Should Belong To India
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
- Fact Check: NATO And EU Will NOT Transfer Fighter Jets To Ukraine
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Ukrainian Soldiers Leaving Their Wives For War In 2022 - It's From 2017 Documentary
- Fact Check: US Military Did NOT Defy 'Biden Regime,' Did NOT Refuse To Deploy
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Dogfight Between Russian And Ukrainian Fighter Jets
- Fact Check: Video Of Standoff Between Russian And Ukrainian Soldiers Is NOT From 2022 -- It Was Crimea In 2014
- Fact Check: There Are NO US-Run Bioweapons Laboratories In Ukraine
- Fact Check: Ukraine's First Female Fighter Pilot 'Natasha Perakov' Did NOT Die In Russia-Ukraine Conflict
- Fact Check: Ukrainian Flag Was NOT Draped On Statue Of Liberty -- This Is Replica In France
- Fact Check: Footage Of Train Carrying Tanks Is NOT Headed To Ukraine -- Shows California In 2017
- Fact Check: Russia Did NOT Send Bombers To Venezuela During Ukraine Invasion -- News Report Is From 2018
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
- Fact Check: Pornhub Did NOT Stop Service To Russia
- Fact Check: Photo Is NOT Wife Of Ukraine's Vice President -- It's Soldier From 2021 Military Parade Rehearsal
- Fact Check: Images Do NOT Show U.S. Soldiers Parting With Families Before Heading To Ukraine
- Fact Check: Putin's Daughter Is NOT Involved In Ruse To Drive Traffic From Instagram To OnlyFans
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Heavy Fighting Between Russia And Ukraine -- It's US, Afghan Forces In Taliban Territory In 2011
- Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Report That Explosion In Ukraine Was 'Peaceful'
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