When several Ukrainian drones crashed in the Baltics two weeks ago, Russian propaganda swiftly pushed a story that Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia had deliberately “opened” their airspace to enable Kiyv to attack Russia.
Is Russia preparing for a potential war with NATO? The question has loomed large since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, resurfacing again and again across political and security circles.
A robot styled after Yulia Tymoshenko; a 17th‑century Muscovite guardsman sneering at Europe’s “effeminate” men; the chance to step into the boots of a modern Russian soldier invading Ukraine — all of this appears in video games released in Russia over the past four years.
Several anonymous social media profiles are spreading a video claiming that the drones that entered Poland in September were in fact launched by Ukraine, not Russia. Allegedly, this was part of a larger plan to divide Ukraine. There is no basis for such claims. The drones that entered Poland were Russian.
Several thousand people have shared a fabricated video in which the well-known doctor Ludmila Vīksna allegedly makes alarming claims about Covid vaccines. The video was created using artificial intelligence to attract buyers for an unregistered dietary supplement or miracle cure.