On March 5th, Russian-language media outlets Russia 1, Regnum.ru, Glas.ru, Novostivl.ru, Donbass Today reported the alleged blocking of 60 and elimination of 15 members of the “Georgian Legion” in Ukraine. The media relied on Russian military correspondent Semon Pegov, who reported the deaths of 15 members of the Georgian Legion on his Telegram channel WarGrozno...

On March 2nd, 2022, the Facebook page “Youth” published a post about the Russia-Ukraine war, claiming that Russia has sent expired, obsolete equipment to Ukraine and still managed to destroy Ukraine and damage its cities and infrastructure: “The people who say that Ukraine will win, based on what are they making that assumption? Russia used...

On February 28th, the Facebook user “Iveri Merkviladze” published a quote about Ukraine by Germany’s first Reich Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. The post quotes Bismarck as saying: “Russia’s strength can only be undermined by the secession of Ukraine. It is necessary to not only cut off Ukraine from Russia but also to confront them, to...

On March 1st, 2022, the Facebook page “Cardhu” published a post regarding the expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance and the resulting threats to Russia. According to the author, the West provoked the Russia-Ukraine confrontation because the West had broken its promise and started accepting the Warsaw Pact states into NATO. At the same time,...

On February 18th, 2022, Russian online outlets Московский Комсомолец and Tehnowar.ru published articles about foreign-run military laboratories in Ukraine, according to which the United States controls 15 Biolabs in Ukraine. Московский Комсомолец’s article has been circulating on Facebook since February 18th. The propaganda media Ren TV has been writing about the potential biological threat from...

On February 28th, the Facebook user “Ramaz Katamadze” published footage of aerial bombardment. According to the user’s comments, the footage is recent and depicts the outskirts of Kyiv, near Kakhovka. The claim that the video was taken at the outskirts of Kyiv during the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022 is false. In fact, the video has...

On February 26th, the Facebook user “Lela Praga” published a photo depicting a crucified person being set on fire. According to the author, the video allegedly shows the execution of a warrior from Donbas by the Ukrainian Azov Battalion in 2014. On the same day, “Lela Praga” published a second post, which represented a screenshot...

On February 27th, information about the deployment of a Russian air landing party in Kyiv has been circulating on social media. The following Facebook pages: “Dantes,” “Jurisprudence” and media outlets – “News Agency – DailyInfo.Ge,” “TIA.GE,” and “Rustavi 2” have been claiming that the occupier’s air landing parties have infiltrated Kyiv through parachutes. The information...

On February 26th, the information about the capture of an Armenian soldier in Kharkiv went viral on social media. Posts of such content along with a photo of the soldier were published by Facebook user Beso Qatamadze and the publication Pia.ge. According to the descriptions, the Armenian authorities have not yet decided whether to support...

On February 25th, the Facebook user “Beka Vardosanidze” published a post claiming that the tank that ran over a car in Ukraine was not Russian but Ukrainian, which lost control due to a technical malfunction. To prove his point, Vardosanidze argues that the Russian tanks usually move in columns, while the tank shown in the...

On February 26th, a video depicting a tank moving in the city streets getting attacked by the so-called “Molotov cocktails” went viral on Georgian social media. The video was shared by the users “Greg Ksiazek, Berdia Kalandia, Ієромонах Нектарій Мчедлідзе, politician Giorgi Baramidze and TV25. According to Greg Ksiazek, the video depicted the outskirts of...

On February 24th, 2022, Facebook users Lana Nefaridze, Mimi Gabrichidze and Koka Shurgaia published a video featuring a man dressed in military uniform speaking to a woman on the phone in Russian, telling her that her son had been killed and would try to hand over the body to the Ukrainian side. The man then...