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Disinfo: 50 thousand people would have got killed in Donbas if Russia did not intervene in Ukraine in 2014

Summary

If our country [Russia] did not intervene that spring of the year of 2014, not ten thousand would have got killed there, but fifty thousand.

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation. The human rights missions that travelled to Ukraine in 2014 did not find evidence that the Russian minority would have been in any danger: 1. The Advisory Committee’s Ad hoc Report on the situation of national minorities in Ukraine, adopted on 1 April 2014, Council of Europe; 2. Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 15 June 2014; 4. Statement by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities on her Recent Visit to Ukraine, 4 April 2014, Statement of 19 September 2014

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Petr Tolstoy's "Vremya Pokazhet" - YouTube
  • Reported in: Issue 95
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 16/01/2018
  • Outlet language(s) Russian
  • Country: Ukraine, Russia
  • Keywords: War in Ukraine
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While the United States “is dragging the world into war”, Russia is a “peacemaker country”.

Jan 15, 2018
Disproof

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US organises migration to destroy Europe

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Jan 15, 2018
Disproof

No evidence provided for recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation and conspiracy theory.

Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate does not exist

Kyiv Patriarchate has not been recognized in the world at all. [—] And the church of the Kyiv Patriarchate does not exist.

Jan 15, 2018
Disproof

Non-recognition does not mean that the church or its congregation do not exist. According to a poll conducted by the sociological service of the Razumkov Center in November 2016, the majority of Ukrainians - 64.7% - consider themselves Orthodox; among them 39.5% identify themselves with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate and 23.3% refer themselves to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.