Catalogue · ID 217

Fake: Crucifixion in Slovyansk

Author: StopFake
Year of publication: 2014
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: not allowed (a 2014 publication under copyright)

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Where we got it

Original source: https://www.stopfake.org/en/lies-crucifixion-on-channel-one/

Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 2 places.

Procedures

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015) — technique Disinformation

  A massive campaign of fabricating fakes to dehumanize Ukrainians: on state television it was claimed that "Ukrainian armed forces herded city residents to the central square and publicly executed a small boy and his mother," yet "there is no evidence to support Pyshniak's claim," and the residents of Sloviansk who were interviewed did not confirm the story

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015) — technique Aggressor Claiming Victim Status

  The tragedy was used as moral justification for further aggression - by the same device as the "crucified boy" fake, for which "there is no evidence to support Pyshniak's claim"