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DISINFO: Ukrainians are now so hungry that they are driven to...
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: tvzvezda.ru (archived)*
  • Date of publication: March 14, 2017
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Reported in: Issue 63
  • Countries / regions discussed: Ukraine
Tags:
Economic difficulties

DISINFO: Ukrainians are now so hungry that they are driven to...

SUMMARY

Ukrainians are now so hungry that they are driven to scrounge for bread thrown to the birds.

RESPONSE

Zvezda’s source is a Facebook link by a person from Odessa, who claims that she herself saw a poor woman eating bread someone had thrown to pigeons. She illustrates her post with a photograph, showing a woman crouching by a flock of pigeons eating bread. No further evidence for widespread hunger in Ukraine is given. Further debunking at Stopfake bit.ly/2mkY6OF,

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