In the middle of a war, information can be just as dangerous as artillery. That is why a new lie currently making the rounds deserves our attention. Russian propaganda has been circulating a fake statement that appears to come from the Kramatorsk City Military Administration, claiming that property is being seized for the benefit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The document is fabricated from beginning to end. The city council has officially denied it, and the Center for Countering Disinformation has confirmed that no such directive was ever issued. Not a single piece of paper, not a single official…

In the murky, high-stakes corridors of Ukrainian anti-corruption, few cases reveal the system’s vulnerabilities as clearly as the one now unfolding around a luxury apartment, a high-ranking Security Service official, and a group of forensic experts accused of bending the truth. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) have formally notified forensic experts at the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine that they are under investigation. The accusation is stark: these experts allegedly prepared knowingly false conclusions about the value of expensive real estate purchased by…