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Disinfo: Ukraine intends to punish and kill civilians in Donbas

Summary

Ukraine will come and deal with collaborators in Donbas. Ukraine is intimidating people and planning to kill them.

Disproof

No evidence given.

The TV host refers to the interview with Ukraine's chief military prosecutor, Anatoliy Matios, where he did not say such a thing. The video excerpt is shown, wherein prosecutor Matios says that Ukraine will eventually have to undergo the process of lustration and assess collaboration.

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60 minut @Rossiya 1 - YouTube [from 08:00 to 09:40]
  • Reported in: Issue 130
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 13/12/2018
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Keywords: War in Ukraine

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The US is paying for Ukrainian security forces and Ukrainian provocations

Ukraine’s provocative actions, aimed at confrontation with Russia, are fuelled by foreign curators, who also pay for these actions. Recently, the US had to earmark more funds to Ukrainian security forces and provide an oversight over them. The proof for that is a list of military tenders by the US State Department, which includes equipment and services for Ukraine.

December 17, 2018
Disproof

The tender list is publicly available on the US Embassy in Ukraine web site. The equipment and services are devoted to Ukraine in the framework of aid and partnership programmes. The false narrative about Ukraine provoking Russia is a recurring one, so is the message about Ukraine colluding with the West.

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An Orthodox church in Ukraine seized by unknown people

On 15 December, a group of 20 unknown people seized a Moscow Patriarchate Orthodox Church in Vinnytsia city (west-central Ukraine).

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The building has been seized by people that support the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church.

December 17, 2018
Disproof

No evidence given. Ukrainian media published a video about a service held in that church on the 17 December.

Vinnytsia police chief Serhiy Syniavskyi informed that they “sent a special patrol to the church to check things out. Everything was normal as usual". And Stop Fake contacted the caretakers of the Vinnytsia church and were told everything was normal and no one had taken control of the church. "Over the telephone we could hear singing from the mass that was taking place there at the time", mentions Stop Fake.

EU and US are pressuring Austria to conduct doping investigation into Russian biathletes

There is an internal struggle between the Brussels bureaucracy, which is an obedient vassal of Washington, and countries like Austria and Slovakia, which want to protect their national interests, have never given in to Russophobia and wish to normalise relations with Russia. These countries are under colossal pressure and if there is no spy scandal then the West will come up with a doping scandal. […] They want to put Austria to its place, take away its status of intermediary with Russia, not least because Austria is positive about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

 

December 17, 2018
Disproof

Conspiracy theory with no evidence given.

The participants of the discussion are using insinuations and leading questions such as "I have no information that someone is behind it, but we always have to ask the question, who benefits?" to develop a narrative that Austria is under pressure to damage its relations with Russia, via the doping investigation.