Disinformation on the Defenders and Defendresses Day

On October 14, Ukraine celebrated Defenders and Defendresses Day, and the holiday was traditionally attacked by Russian propagandistic media and pro-Kremlin outlets in Ukraine.

They promoted their favorite narratives on far-right nationalism, antisemitism, Russophobia, external governance, – all of them are aimed to discredit Ukraine in the international arena and reiterate the justifications for Russian aggression.

We monitored the messages shared by the disseminators of disinformation, singled out the key fakes and debunked them in the infographic below.