The bombing of the Mariupol Children’s Hospital is not staged

Alongside these elements of communication from the Russian authorities, a verification survey on the Mariupol maternity hospital attack is published on the website of a Russian “fact-checking media” called WarOnFakes. The conclusions of their investigation go in the same direction as that of the Russian argument.

Those responsible for WarOnFakes present themselves as “owners and administrators (sic) of several (sic) Russian non-political channels on Telegram“. In their manifesto, they point out the importance of “transmit objective news on events in Ukraine and the Donbass“.

• But what is it really?

Registered via a postal address in Moscow, the site has been released on March 1a few days after the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine.

But before the launch of its web platform, WarOnFakes first became known via encrypted Telegram messaging.

On its channel, created on February 24 (the day of the announcement of the Russian offensive in Ukraine), WarOnFakes shares daily with more than 700,000 subscribers its observations and snapshots of the ongoing war.

LThe group’s observations and analyzes are also regularly echoed by the Twitter accounts of Russian embassies abroad (1, 2, 3). These publications also feed the web portal, created a week later.

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