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Facebook posts stated on April 30, 2022 in a post:
“Space X’s Starlink internet constellation has angered Russia as it was reported that the Starlink satellite constellation was used to guide the fire” on the Russian ship Moskva.
By Monique Curet• May 5, 2022
Donald Trump stated on February 18, 2025 in remarks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy “started” the war in Ukraine with Russia.
By Claire Cranford, Louis Jacobson• February 19, 2025
Instagram posts stated on February 27, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Photo of injured Ukrainian woman was from 2018 Russia gas explosion.
By Jeff Cercone• April 7, 2022
Facebook posts stated on February 25, 2022 in a Facebook post:
The war in Ukraine is “scripted and staged.”
By Gabrielle Settles• March 4, 2022
Facebook posts stated on December 12, 2022 in a Facebook post:
The war in Ukraine is “all over.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• December 13, 2022
Instagram posts stated on October 09, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Less than 48 hours after Israel was attacked “we have hundreds of hours worth of footage but zero footage from the Ukraine war.”
By Sara Swann• October 13, 2023
Facebook posts stated on June 28, 2022 in a Facebook video post:
Video claims Moscow turned into “sea of fire after being attacked by two mysterious missiles.”
By Andy Nguyen• June 30, 2022
Facebook posts stated on April 13, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Ukraine was responsible for the Kramatorsk train station bombing.
By Samantha Putterman• April 18, 2022
Facebook posts stated on May 01, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Video shows Ukraine was “nuked.”
By Luiz Romero• May 4, 2023
John Kerry stated on July 20, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
"The so-called defense minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. And then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media."  
By Lauren Carroll• July 20, 2014
Russian Embassy in Canada stated on March 01, 2022 in a statement:
"The Russian army does not occupy Ukrainian territory."
By Louis Jacobson• March 3, 2022
Instagram posts stated on February 07, 2024 in an Instagram post:
"Ukraine puts Tucker Carlson on a ‘hit list’ after an interview with Vladimir Putin.”
By Jeff Cercone• February 9, 2024
Facebook posts stated on April 16, 2022 in a video:
"America (is) trying to overthrow the Ukraine government just as the shadow government has infiltrated and overthrown the US government."
By Monique Curet• April 22, 2022
Brit Hume stated on September 21, 2014 in a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday":
Says President Barack Obama is "sending a much larger (force) " to deal with Ebola "than ISIS is getting."  
By Jon Greenberg• September 23, 2014
Henry Kissinger stated on September 06, 2014 in an interview on NPR:
"There were fewer civilian casualties in Cambodia than there have been from American drone attacks."
By Jon Greenberg• September 11, 2014
X posts stated on April 04, 2022 in a tweet:
Says Tucker Carlson said, “What if these bodies of tortured, dead civilians were staged? What if they’re fake? What if the Ukrainian military killed them & then blamed Russia? I’m not saying any of this is true, I’m just asking the questions. Why can’t we ask these questions?”
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 7, 2022
Tom Cotton stated on June 16, 2024 in an interview on CNN's State of the Union:
“The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.”
By Amy Sherman• July 2, 2024
Instagram posts stated on October 20, 2022 in a post:
“Ukraine has a nuclear bomb primed in Mykolaiv.”
By Luiz Romero• October 27, 2022
Facebook posts stated on March 04, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Deceased Ukrainian fighter pilot Col. Oleksandr Oksanchenko was the “Ghost of Kyiv.”
By Gabrielle Settles• March 14, 2022
Vladimir Putin stated on February 24, 2022 in an address to the nation announcing the attack on Ukraine:
Ethnic Russians face “genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime.”
By Jon Greenberg• February 25, 2022

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