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Listen 7 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article In an angry, conspiratorial address Friday, amid grand fanfare, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered the Kremlin’s justification for Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian territories, presenting an anti-Western worldview that accused …
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The Kremlin and Russian state media are aggressively pushing a baseless conspiracy theory blaming the United States for damage to natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in what analysts said Friday is another effort to split the U.S. and its European allies. The Russian position is also …
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“The Russian people are today waking up to … the fact that…fifty-five thousand of their troops have already lost their lives in the short, six-month conflict.” Gillian Keegan MP, 21 September 2022. “Our losses to date are 5,937 dead.” Sergey Shoigu, Russian defence minister, 21 September 2022. …
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One evening in February, as Ivan Gorlovko was burying his dog in the frozen yard behind his house in Chuhuiv, 25 miles south-east of Kharkiv, he heard a screech of tyres and looked up to see a convoy of Ukrainian army trucks on the bridge over the Siverskyi Donets. The link between Laika’s death …
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How is it that more than 190 governments from all over the world ended up dealing with the Covid pandemic in almost exactly the same manner, with lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccination cards commonplace everywhere? The answer may lie in the Young Global Leaders school, which was established and …
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Moscow Disinfo Did Poland “take the first step towards turning Ukraine into a Polish colony”? No, that’s not true: Even a Facebook video that made such a claim admits there are no credible media reports or official statements backing this up. Lead Stories previously debunked similar claims that …
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A sprawling disinformation network originating in Russia sought to use hundreds of fake social media accounts and dozens of sham news websites to spread Kremlin talking points about the invasion of Ukraine, Meta revealed Tuesday. The company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said it identified …
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Quick Take Two American carmakers have donated 100 pickup trucks and SUVs to assist with humanitarian aid in Ukraine. But an Instagram post makes the baseless claim that the vehicles were provided at U.S. taxpayers’ expense. Full Story Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, the U.S. has …
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On the same day, another pro-Kremlin Telegram channel, with 700,000 followers, posted in Russian: “Thanks to Biden and European friends of Ukraine, Javelins, machine guns and even tanks will pop up all over the world in the hands of terrorists and criminals.”
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Exaggeration Did Russians fleeing President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilization of troops for deployment in Ukraine immediately form a “35KM” (about 21.7 miles) line on September 21, 2022 at the Finnish border? No, that’s not true: The viral video started circulating online two days before this …
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