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.

Disproof

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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  • Reported in: Issue 63
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 14/03/2017
  • Outlet language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Ukraine
  • Keywords: Economic difficulties
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture stated that there is no budget for the Eurovision in the country’s budget

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Disproof

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Disinfo: Since the first day of its independence, Ukrainian authorities have...

Since the first day of its independence, Ukrainian authorities have systematically violated the rights of ethnic Russians forbidding them to speak in Russian.

Mar 13, 2017
Disproof

According to Ukraine’s Constitution and the Law on languages, every person is guaranteed the right to choose the language he or she wishes to speak and no restrictions have ever been enacted limiting that choice (see Article 10: bit.ly/2ep35dP.), According to the Council of Europe, "In respect of the Russian language, most undertakings chosen by Ukraine under the European Charter for regional or minority languages were fulfilled or partly fulfilled." bit.ly/2en7tsa, .