Questions tagged [ukraine]
for questions about claims based in Ukraine, or limited to Ukraine.
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Are first-person view (FPV) drones responsible for 75% of casualties on Russian side in Russia-Ukraine war?
Youtuber Civ Div states on video
A year after it was learned that they [first-person view (FPV) drones] are the most effective weapon on the battlefield. The stats are insane. There was a Russian ...
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Is Ukraine considering restoring nuclear weapons?
On a pro-Ukrainian Reddit thread I came across a post claiming that Ukraine is claiming that it can restore nuclear weapons in a couple of weeks, and will consider it.
It followed through to this page ...
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Have approximately 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers been killed in action since 2022?
Recently, Ukrainian president Zelenskyy claimed that approximately 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action since Russia's invasion in 2022. Other estimates are far higher. Of course, ...
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Was a Russian tank photographed during the 1956 Hungarian revolution destroyed in Ukraine in 2023?
I have found this image on a meme website (9gag). If true, the story is fascinating in multiple ways, but I have not been able to find any reliable sources.
Are the two tanks in the two pictures the ...
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Did Ukraine regularly place some of their military assets in areas populated by civilians?
Amnesty International claims:
Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, ...
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Were 90% of Mariupol's apartment buildings destroyed during 2022 battles?
So I've encountered links to this 2023 Meduza publication on Politics.SE, which states:
In 2022, when the city was the site of a months-long battle between invading Russian forces and the Ukrainian ...
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Did a pro-Ukraine group blow up Nordstream pipeline?
A recent NYT post claims that "Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say". How true is this claim?
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Did a yacht owned by a Polish company with Ukrainian owners travel from Rostock to Christiansø on September 6-7, 2022?
A number of mainstream German newspapers claimed on March 7 that a likely Ukrainian commando travelling on false passports boarded a yacht registered to a Polish company (but ultimately owned by ...
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Did Sergei Pashinsky say Bayraktar are not effective in combat, and get shot down almost immediately?
In this tweet with an attached video, it is claimed that the chairman of Ukraine's Committee on National Security and Defense Council, Serhiy Pashynskyi said,
“Bayraktar has more PR and corruption ...
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Do Donetsk residents want to join Russia?
Eva K. Bartlett has posted a YouTube video on Oct 1, 2022. It includes some interviews of residents of Donetsk, a city in Eastern Ukraine.
The interviewees express pro-Russian opinions.
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Were the Starlink units for Ukraine not paid by Musk?
In reply to Elon Musk's (controversial) peace plan for Ukraine, someone tweeted that
USAID and other paid for Strlinks, you fake philanthropist.
(A tweet with 6000+ "likes", so reasonably ...
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Did Kyiv National Linguistic University publish a map showing that only a few Ukrainians (in the West of the country) speak Ukrainian at home?
Various Russian & other sources give this map (also on P.SE, but probably the most notable of these might be https://www.opendemocracy.net/ru/kto-boretsya-s-kem-v-ukraine-i-pochemu/)
Was that ...
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Did the former Ukrainian ombudsman for human rights admit to exaggerating facts concerning sexual violence during the 2022 war in Ukraine?
In May 2022, former Ombudsman for Human Rights of Ukraine, Lyudmila Denisova, was removed from her position. This happened due to criticism on how she communicated insights on cases of sexual violence ...
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Did Putin claim that the predominantly Russian-speaking Donbas region is pro-Russia?
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Putin has maintained the predominantly Russian-speaking Donbas region is pro-Russia, although polls have indicated that is not the case.
This is the first time I've seen this claim, ...
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Did Volodymyr Zelenskyy say that "if someone in Ukraine feels Russian, they should leave for Russia"?
In an interview with the BBC on June 16, 2022, Sergey Lavrov claims the following:
[…], whose president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in September 2021 (you didn’t tell your viewers about it, did you?) ...
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