“Boris Johnson spiked peace negotiations after Russia withdrew from Kyiv as a goodwill gesture”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: false
Vladimir Putin
Russian president. 8 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2022 to 2024. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
“Ukraine is an artificial state.”
PolitiFact rated this: Twisted history
PolitiFact says: Documented references to Ukraine are centuries old, and Putin shared a distorted view of Russia and Ukraine's history, experts told PolitiFact.
“En 2014 hubo un golpe de Estado” por parte de la oposición ucraniana.”
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falso
“Los batallones nacionalistas ucranianos lo impidieron (la evacuación de la población) recurriendo a la violencia contra la población civil".”
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: No hay evidencias
“Rusia es una creación de la "Rusia comunista bolchevique”
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Engañoso
“Ethnic Russians face “genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: No evidence supports this claim. Civilian deaths in the conflict region have plummeted from over 2,000 in 2014 to less than 20 in 2021.
“I will start with the fact that modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, Communist Russia.”
Washington Post rated this: False
Washington Post says: Putin tries to minimize Ukraine as a recent creation,
“Modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, Communist Russia.”
PolitiFact rated this: An inaccurate, one-sided view
PolitiFact says: Parts of the territory of Ukraine were under the control of Poland, Lithuania, the Byzantine Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire for nearly 400 years before the Russians held sway.