Footage of plane under fire is from a video game, not Ukraine
The video is actually from the tactical shooter game Arma 3. Read
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Immigration
Home Office claim to have launched first Ukrainian visa scheme lacks context
Many countries taking Ukrainian refugees never required visas in the first place. Others have waived visa schemes entirely. Read
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Photograph of men in military uniform doesn’t show squad members of FC Dynamo Kyiv
A photograph claiming to show the Dynamo Kyiv football team in army uniform actually shows members of a nationalist group in Ukraine. Read
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No evidence news channel used shot from Deep Impact to show people fleeing Kyiv
Italian fact checkers have found no evidence the shot was broadcast by TGCOM24. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Government has not backed up Russian sanction claims
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said it has sanctioned Russian bank assets worth more than those sanctioned by the US or EU—but hasn’t explained how it reached its figures. Read
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Barcodes alone can’t show a product was made in Russia
They can only show that the company that registered the code was based there. Read
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Nuclear weapons do exist
There’s plenty of evidence that the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not napalm, as a Facebook post claims. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
£24bn in extra defence spending will be spread over four years
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has previously described the practice of adding up multiple years of spending increases as “misleading”. Read
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Boris Johnson’s claims on UK accepting people fleeing conflict miss vital context
The UK has resettled more people than other European countries through resettlement schemes, but that doesn’t include hundreds of thousands of people also seeking asylum. Read
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Sign telling Russian troops ‘go f*** yourselves’ was Photoshopped
The picture, which went viral online, was designed by the Ukrainian authorities to encourage people to tear down road signs. Read
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