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Disinfo: White Helmets continue to deceive about the attacks in Syria

Summary

The “White Helmets” is an organization that creates fake videos and photos about the war in Syria.  All the work of the “White Helmets” is directed exclusively at a Western audience and does not reflect the real state of affairs in Syria.

Disproof

This is a recurring and enduring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the White Helmets.

The "White Helmets" movement originated in Syria in 2012, when the first detachments of volunteer rescuers appeared in the territories outside of the control of Bashar al-Assad's troops.  In 2014, volunteer teams merged into a national organisation, the Syrian Civil Defence, which is the official name of the White Helmets.  Volunteers save people from the rubble after bombings, despite the danger of dying themselves as a result of repeated air strikes.  Activists have documented the use of chemical weapons in Syria by the Assad government and allied forces. Because of this, they have become the target of an extensive Russian disinformation campaign.

For more fakes about the work of  the "White Helmets" read here and here.

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  • Reported in: Issue 158
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 13/07/2019
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: Syria
  • Keywords: White Helmets, Chemical weapons/attack
  • Outlet: RT Russian
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The money allocated for the fake “moon program” was in fact spent on financing the war in Vietnam and the development of the American military industrial complex.

Now Washington and NASA intend to fly to the Moon and even Mars in the same fake way.

 

 

July 22, 2019
Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative based on one of the most common conspiracy theories in the world. There is a substantial amount of evidence that on July 20, 1969, astronauts landed on Earth's satellite for the first time in the history of mankind. Since then, a total of 12 American astronauts have visited the Moon. 

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The EU could end the war in Ukraine with one telephone call

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The tactic that has been adopted by the EU on the Ukrainian issue is as follows: it is more convenient to impose sanctions against Russia than to end the war in Donbas with a call to Kyiv; encouraging Ukrainian leaders to engage in dialogue with the other side of the conflict.

The EU addresses Russia out of convenience, and not because Russia is the cause of the problem.

 

July 21, 2019
Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about the war in Ukraine.

It was not the European Union, but Russia, which provoked military conflict in Ukraine, so the EU cannot end the conflict without Russia's involvement.

Russia is not a part of the domestic conflict in Ukraine

Russia is not a part of the domestic conflict in Ukraine. Russia repeatedly pointed out that it was neither one of the sides of the domestic conflict in Ukraine nor a subject of the Minsk agreements on conflict resolution in the Donbas. For Moscow, the Crimean question is off the table forever.

 

July 21, 2019
Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Ukraine and the war in Ukraine.

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