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Original article (in Montenegrin) was published on 23/03/2022 Already on the first day of the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army occupied the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. This event helped some social network users create fake news about “relaunched radiation” and then about crimes allegedly committed on the site where the worst nuclear catastrophe […]
Original article (in Serbian) was published on 21/03/2022 The claims of Russian officials that 70 people died of tuberculosis due to biological laboratories in Ukraine in 2018, and that America was financing those laboratories, were recently shared by Informer, but without featuring additional explanations from the other side. In accordance with the pro-Russian narrative, this […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 25/03/2022 Sputnik Srbija published an article quoting the former Ukrainian prime minister, who stated that Russia prevented NATO from starting World War III. These are unfounded and incorrect statements. On March 4, 2022, the website Sputnik Srbija published an article entitled: Former Ukrainian prime minister: Russia prevented NATO […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 17/03/2022 An inaccurate claim spreading on social networks claims that a scene from the American disaster movie “Deep Impact” was used in reporting on the war in Ukraine. On March 14, 2022, the profile of Petra Vidas published a collage with two photographs and the following description: They […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 07/03/2022 Some websites published a claim that “Ukrainian nationalists” allegedly captured the vehicles of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s mission in Ukraine. The OSCE has denied the allegations. Every day, the website Sputnik publishes articles containing daily updated information related to the war in Ukraine. […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 14/03/2022 For days, the civilian population in the besieged city of Mariupol is under intense Russian attacks. Efforts to open humanitarian corridors for their evacuation attract media attention and are also the subject of disinformation narratives. The war between Ukraine and Russia began on February 24, 2022, when […]
Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 16/03/2022 Articles from several websites feature claims that Ukraine was trying to develop nuclear weapons, attributed to an anonymous representative of “one of Russia’s competent departments”. All available data clearly indicate that this did not happen. On March 6, 2022, the website Sputnik Serbia published an article entitled: […]
The glorification of war criminals is a trend that has revived in the Balkans in recent days and weeks.
The claim that “the Dayton Agreement created a state union of BiH composed of two entities, the Republic of Srpska and the Federation of BiH” has been repeated for years in public discourse in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region.