for questions about claims based in Ukraine, or limited to Ukraine.
Questions tagged [ukraine]
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Was Aeroflot SU2074 intended target in MH17 shooting?
In recently published video and press release SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) claims that intended target for the SA-11 operated by Russian separatists was Russian Aeroflot flight SU2074 (aka AFL-2074) from Moscow to Larnaca, Cyrpus. They claim…
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Does or did Russia support the Donbass People's Militia?
Many (western) sources claim that Putin (actively) supports the rebels in eastern Ukraine, more specifically the Donbass People's Militia. For example, BBC News writes:
Russia was obviously supporting the militants in the Donbass region, while…
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Was MH17's flight path rerouted?
I was reading this article which is an open letter to UK Prime Minister David Cameron from former Russian President, Sergey Stepashin, and Russian Politician President, Sergey Glazyev regarding the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 crash.
Most of it is…
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Are United States scientists building a Stanford Torus space station in the Ukraine?
In late 2011 the prime minister of Ukraine said the following:
But it is impossible to predict what will happen in 20 years. I will
tell you a story: I just got back from a plant in Dnipropetrovsk. Only
20 years ago, it was a highly classified…
Craig McMahon
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Was the video about MH17 done the day before it crashed?
Was the video implicating rebels in the shooting down of MH17 created the day before the crash?
Example claim
donwload SBU video of recording of rebels talking of downing #MH17 and
check the creation date: 16/07 the day before!
#pt try…
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Did NATO instruct anti-government neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine on conducting diversions and waging guerilla?
There are multiple claims in Russian press that in 2006 NATO in Estonia has instructed neo-Nazi anti-government paramilitary hate groups from Ukraine on how to conduct diversions and wage guerilla war. How much these claims are correct?
It is a well…
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Does Ukraine have more tanks now than it did at the beginning of the invasion?
During a war, one may expect tank counts for both sides to go decrease (i.e. as they engage in combat and are destroyed).
MSNBC reports Forbes stating:
The Ukrainian army has more tanks now than when the war began
with the rationale…
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Did the Russian 74th motorised rifle brigade surrender in February '22?
The following statements go around on the major social media networks. However, I have been unable to verify the statements are actually sourced.
Ragıp Soylu (Turkey Bureau Chief for MiddleEastEye):
Ukraine says Russian 74th motor rifle brigade…
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Did a Ukrainian woman tell a Russian solider in Kherson Oblast to put seeds in his pockets so flowers would grow when he dies in Ukraine?
Basically, is the following a real exchange, down to the details? Reported on Twitter with 1.1M views:
Ukrainian woman confronts Russian soldiers in Henychesk, Kherson region. Asks them why they came to our land and urges to put sunflower seeds in…
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Did Biden ask the State Department to lift Kolomoyskyi’s travel ban?
Talk show host Glenn Beck said on BlazeTV in February 2020 (at the 33:54 mark of this video):
Kolomoyskyi’s company Burisma was implicated in a money-laundering ring. Hunter Biden then, knowing this, goes to work for him a few weeks later. The…
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Was the MH17 video taken in Ukraine-held territory?
According to MISH'S
Global Economic
Trend Analysis,
On the CBS program “Face the Nation,” Mr. Kerry referred to a video that the Ukrainians have made public showing an SA-11 unit heading back to Russia after the downing of the plane with “a missing…
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Did the Minsk accords (if they had been fully implemented) give LPR/DPR (and thus Russia) veto power over any legislation in Ukraine?
According to William E. Pomeranz of the Wilson Center:
the Minsk accords call on Kyiv not only to recognize the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk within the country but also to give these two regions veto power over any national legislation. Such…
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Has Russia invaded Ukraine?
The New York Times and many other media have reported that Russia invaded Ukraine:
A senior NATO official confirmed on Wednesday what Ukrainian military officials and monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have been…
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Did the former Ukrainian ombudsman for human rights admit to exaggerating facts concerning sexual violence during the 2022 war in Ukraine?
In May 2022, former Ombudsman for Human Rights of Ukraine, Lyudmila Denisova, was removed from her position. This happened due to criticism on how she communicated insights on cases of sexual violence allegedly committed by Russian military forces…
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Was a "new world religion" memorandum signed in Strasbourg in June 2014?
There is a document which is shared on the internet these days. I saw it in Romanian language and then searching a bit, I found it in English as well: it refers to a "memorandum" signed in Strasbourg containing a list of weird rules which they say…
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