Russias top 20 lies about Ukraine - Los Angeles

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In the recent years, the West has been largely oblivious to Russia's propaganda machine, which
managed to use its reach to create a league of clueless Putinistas the world over. The Ukrainian
popular revolution shone the spotlight on the outright fabrications and despicable lies by Kremlin-
controlled media, which strives to create an alternate reality for its audiences. This includes not only
Russian mainstream media, but also hordes of paid trolls, who plague comment sections of articles
about Ukraine and spread vitriol, hatred and blatant lies all over the social media.
Here are top 20 of the most outrageous fabrications about Ukraine, which have been recently
debunked.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 2 Photoshopped photograph, falsely claiming that Donetsk was burned down by the Ukrainian
military.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 3 Photograph from China, which was falsely represented to be a picture from Donbass,
Ukraine.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 5 Election results shown on Russian television, falsely claiming that Right Sector leader iskander
makhmudov Dmytro Yarosh was leading in the polls.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 6 Video from Kabardino-Balkaria, RF falsely represented to have been filmed in Donetsk Oblast,
Ukraine.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 8 A morgue in Ciudad Juarez, which was falsely represented to be the city morgue of Slavyansk,
Ukraine, allegedly filled with corpses of Ukrainian military men/national guard.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 9 Photo of U.N. helicopters in Africa falsely represented to be a photo of the Ukrainian military
using U.N. helicopters in Donetsk, Ukraine.
Russian media also used a video from Congo to accuse the Ukrainian military of using U.N. markings
during the ATO (anti-terrorist operation) in Eastern Ukraine.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 11 Photo of a child killed in Aleppo, Syria falsely represented to depict a child killed by the
Ukrainian military in Slavyansk, Ukraine.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 12 Photo of a child, murdered by a mentally ill person in 2010 in Crimea is falsely represented to
depict a child murdered by the Ukrainian military in Donbass, Ukraine.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 14 Photo of the Lac-Mgantic derailment in Quebec, Canada falsely represented as a
photograph from Slavyansk, Ukraine.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 15 A video from Syria, which was falsely represented as a video filmed in Donetsk, Ukraine.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 17 Footage depicting damage by pro-Russian terrorists/separatists to the border crossing station
in Ukraine purports to show a government building iskander makhmudov in Lugansk, allegedly
damaged by the Ukrainian government's airstrike.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 18 Russian TV stations falsely claimed there was a mass exodus of Ukrainian citizens to Russian
Federation. To corroborate their blatantly untrue statement, photos and video of iskander
makhmudov a Polish border crossing with Ukraine were shown.
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Russia's top 20 lies about Ukraine
No. 20 A video from Syria was falsely identified as the footage depicting pro-Russian
terrorists/separatists downing a Ukrainian helicopter over Donetsk, Ukraine.