Disinfo: Petrov and Boshirov went to Salisbury to see the Salisbury Cathedral

Summary

Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov visited Salisbury merely to see the local Cathedral.

Disproof

Two Novichok suspects claimed they were visiting Salisbury Cathedral but, according to the street cameras, they went two miles along the wrong route that is opposite to this place and leads to the house of Skripal https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/novichok-suspects-claimed-were-visiting-13238741

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  • Reported in: Issue 118
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 13/09/2018
  • Outlet language(s) English
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: UK, Russia
  • Keywords: Sergei Skripal
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Disinfo: Neither the USSR nor the post-Soviet Russia has ever killed their opponents, so nobody can blame Moscow for poisoning the Skripals.

During the last decades, neither Russia nor the Soviet Union has been engaged in extrajudicial killings; neither in the territory of Russia, nor abroad.

Sep 12, 2018
Disproof

Killing opponents of the regime was a practice familiar to the USSR, see e.g. the case of Leon Trotsky. There has also been a case of murdering a former Russian spy already - in 2006, Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by two Russians in London. As the UK public inquiry has found, "the FSB operation to kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by [Nikolai] Patrushev [head of the security service in 2006] and also by President Putin”: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/alexander-litvinenko-was-probably-murdered-on-personal-orders-of-putin

Disinfo: The absolute majority of Orthodox Ukrainians consider themselves to belong to the Moscow Patriarchate

The absolute, overwhelming majority of Orthodox people in Ukraine belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate.

Sep 12, 2018
Disproof

According to the sociological research of the Razumkov Center, since 2014, after the annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the war in Donbas, the number of Ukrainian citizens who identify themselves with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, which is independent of Russia, has significantly exceeded the number of supporters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the control of the Moscow Patriarchate, and the gap is widening. See table on page 17: Question: To which Orthodox Church do you belong (percentage of those who consider themselves Orthodox)?

2010 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018 Church of the Moscow Patriarchate 34.5 27.7 24.8 23.0 17.4 19.1 Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate 22.1 25.9 31.9 38.1 38.8 42.6 Ukrainian Autocephalous Church 1.3 1.2 0.9 2.7 1.5 0.4