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DISINFO: Twenty Ukrainian soldiers died and 200 were hospitalized with the...
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: ac24.cz (archived)*
  • Date of publication: January 26, 2016
  • Outlet language(s): Czech
  • Reported in: Issue 13
  • Countries / regions discussed: Ukraine
Tags:
Donbas

DISINFO: Twenty Ukrainian soldiers died and 200 were hospitalized with the...

SUMMARY

Twenty Ukrainian soldiers died and 200 were hospitalized with the deadly California flu virus outside the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

RESPONSE

None of these fake stories were accompanied by facts or photos. There has been no mass illness or viral infection among Ukraine’s armed forces. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has no information about any such mass illness: bit.ly/1PNNd0d,

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