“As the world reacted in horror to images and videos of death and destruction left behind in parts of the #Kyiv Region after #Russian forces withdrew from those areas,
#Russian state media and officials issued a series of denials and counter-accusations, in some cases self-contradictory, that fueled disinformation surrounding the tragic events.”
“Ukrainian officials, dozens of international reporters on the ground and eyewitness have corroborated accounts of mass devastation and murdered civilians found in #Bucha, a small town in the #Kyiv region, after it was abandoned by #Russian forces.”
“Russian denials have included a number of contradictory versions of events, including accusations that #Ukrainian forces were to blame for the atrocities and that the whole incident was staged, but those claims,
which have been amplified by social media accounts in several languages, do not stand up to scrutiny.”
“On 17 October, #Russian websites published an animated film whose main characters are a pig with #Nazi tattoos and a #Ukrainian flag, and a bear with a band in the colours of the Russian flag.
Interestingly, those posts usually feature a duplicated description informing that the cartoon was filmed by an #Israeli television channel INN. In this article, we explain that the film is #Russian, and the Israeli INN TV does not exist at all.”
But the photo has been digitally manipulated; the original photo, posted to the Flickr photo-sharing service in 2006, does not show the #Ukrainian president.”