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Deepfake video manipulates that General Zaluzhny is preparing a military coup

15 November 2023

Photo: Video screenshot The video in which the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, allegedly, calls for a military coup and speaks against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a high-quality fake video, or so-called “deepfake”, created with the help of artificial intelligence, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and […]

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It is not true that Russia has defeated Ukraine, nor is it at war with the EU and NATO

15 November 2023

The post is spreading disinformation that the Russian military actions on the territory of Ukraine, which took place on 24 February completely unprovoked, are over and that, allegedly, Russia was the winner. The military invasion and the Ukrainian defense, however, are still ongoing and nothing appears to signal that they will end soon. In addition, […]

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The mass media never declared “Ukraine is done with!”, nor should they be blamed for the war victims

14 November 2023

Photo: Enrique on Pixabay Neither mass media have recognized that “Ukraine is Done With”, nor should journalists be blamed for the thousands of lives lost in Ukraine, as the post claims. The journalists did not encourage the military invasion of Ukraine, Russia did, while Ukraine responded with the support of its Western partners to defend […]

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Zelensky is not implementing “extremist regime of ethnic cleansing and genocide”

4 November 2023

Ukraine is a republic with a presidential-parliamentary system of government, which is defined within the Constitution from 1996. Just before Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow falsely accused Ukraine of genocide against Russian-speaking citizens in the Donbas region. Putin used this narrative to justify the invasion of Ukraine, but with no evidence to support […]

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America is tarnished by disinformation about the wars in Ukraine and Israel cooked up in the “Russian kitchen”

2 November 2023

Photo: Screenshot of the video in the FB post The Ukrainian authorities denied the claim that their country was providing arms to Hamas. On Monday (09.10.2023), the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Agency posted on its official Facebook page accusations that Russia launched a disinformation campaign related to these claims. The US continues to support Ukraine in […]

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Russia’s broadcasting hub in the Balkans

2 November 2023

By Ardit Kika Daily editions of Serbian pro-government tabloids such as Novosti, Alo, and Srpski Telegraf can be found in the shops and kiosks of Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo from Zubin Potok to Gračanica. These newspapers not only support and reflect the policies of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, they also voice their support for Russian […]

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Heaps of lies about the war in Ukraine, spiced up with “The Great Reset”

27 October 2023

Photo: Pixabay.com The post falsely claims that the war in Ukraine was initiated by the collective West, linking that with the “Great Reset”, in which the Jews allegedly have a role to play. The fact is that Russia initiated the war in Ukraine and that the Western countries are just supporting Ukraine in its efforts […]

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It is Not True That CNN Reduced the Media Coverage of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

26 October 2023

CNN follows the Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine with direct presence of its own teams and informs from the field about the situation in Ukraine every day. That did not change even after the new conflict shook the world. Truthmeter analyzed CNN’s coverage from 10-17 October (a week before the Facebook post) and found 6,501 media […]

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The West did not desire war in Ukraine and Israel

26 October 2023

Photo: pixabay.com Western countries did not vote against the “resolution for stopping military actions and attacks between Israel and Palestine”, as the post claims, they just did not support Russia’s resolution to condemn violence and terrorism of civilians, because it did not mention HAMAS attacks and killings of 1,400 civilians in Israel. The post does […]

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UN Charter Does Not Give Russia the Right to Attack Ukraine

25 October 2023

Articles 106 and 107 of the UN Charter do not give Russia the right to attack Ukraine, or any of the other countries listed on the post, for its “attempts to revive Nazism”, as the post claims. Article 107 is no longer relevant since enemy states no longer exist as they used to be defined by […]

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It Is Not True that Russia Does Not Bomb Inhabited Places

24 October 2023

The post we are fact-checking claims that Russia does not bomb inhabited places. It is a fact that Russia, on several occasions, has targeted inhabited places and hundreds of civilians, including women and children, were killed, writes Truthmeter.mk.   Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text in its entirety below: […]

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There is no evidence that Ukraine gave weapons to Hamas

15 October 2023

Photo: A screenshot from the video Citing an official announcement of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, Ukrainska Pravda writes that Russia was preparing to discredit Ukraine, aiming to influence the allies’ attitude and impact the supply of Western weapons. Security experts for foreign fact-checkers say that Ukraine is in an existential battle against Russia and […]

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Manipulation of the address of the Dutch Minister of Defense on the Security Forum in Warsaw

14 October 2023

Photo: A screenshot from the video Opposed to the claims made in the post, once the original statement of the Dutch Defense Minister, Kajsa Ollongren, given at the Security Forum in Warsaw, it becomes quite clear that war was not encouraged, but the support for Ukraine was continued since Ukraine was facing the territorial claims […]

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(REPORTAGE): Even the air in Moldova seems to tremble in suspense over the Russian aggression in Ukraine

10 October 2023

Demolished hotel “National” in the centre of Chișinău in the colours of the Ukrainian flag; Photo: Meta.mk   An old dilapidated building greets the passengers arriving at the airport in Chișinău. In terms of its size and interior, it overwhelmingly reminds me of the old building of the Skopje Airport. Immediately after the entrance of […]

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Propaganda video to smear Biden and glorify Putin

8 October 2023

The two contexts of Biden and Putin’s meetings with children are different. In Putin’s case, one can see that the interview and meeting were previously organized since the cameras on the video are already positioned and he is acting in accordance with the set situation. Biden’s video, on the other hand, is spontaneous, made with […]

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It is not true that all Ukrainian women from 18 to 60 years of age will be mobilized in the war

6 October 2023

Photo: president.gov.ua The post is sharing untrue information that Ukrainian women will be mobilized in the Army. It refers to a recent legal provision that mandates women with medical or pharmaceutical backgrounds to register for military service starting from 1st October, but unlike men aged 18 – 60, unless they are mobilized, they would not […]

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No statistics on suicide in Russian and Ukrainian prisons

5 October 2023

Photo: A screenshot of the video This Facebook post deliberately omits the context and creates propaganda that the Russian Army is humane with Ukrainian war prisoners. At the same time, it manipulates the calamities caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, presenting Russian prisons as humane places, although numerous reports inform about the ongoing torture, […]

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Increased tension between Moscow and the West regarding Ukraine

3 October 2023

Last month, the tension between the West and Moscow increased, as well as the tensions between individual Western countries and Russia bilaterally – with frequent use of several classical disinformation narratives by Russia such as: the West is fighting against Russia until the last Ukrainian standing, the West is the bad guy, while Russia is […]

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Only 90 Russians trying to avoid conscription granted German asylum

24 September 2023

Some 3,500 Russian men of conscription age have applied for asylum in Germany since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but only 90 have been accepted so far, writes German news agency DPA. The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has so far decided on more than 1,500 of the applications […]

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The claim that Russia is at war with the “Anti-religious” Western civilization is a myth

24 September 2023

Photo: part of the post with disinformation One cannot claim – as the post does – that the anti-religious civilization, or the West, is fighting against Russia. Russia wants to impose itself as the main global defender of the traditional and religious, which could be seen from Putin’s speech, two days before the anniversary of […]

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