PolitiFact - Lie of the Year 2022: Putin’s lies to wage war and conceal horror in Ukraine

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PolitiFact’s annual Lie of the Year goes to the most impactful falsehood of the year. In 2022, the choice was clear. We name Putin’s lies about Ukraine the 2022 Lie of the Year.

said its Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine documented killings of 73 civilians in Bucha and was corroborating an additional 105 alleged killings.

Russian filmmaker Nadezhda Kolobaeva said she was outraged in April when a colleague alerted her to a report on state-owned Russia-24 TV channel that claimed to show Ukrainians were exaggerating civilian war casualties. The news report stole behind-the-scenes footage from a fictionalized series Kolobaeva had been working on. The clip showed two people, Kolobaeva’s colleagues, adjusting a mannequin for a shot.

a Polish raid on a German broadcasting tower, leaving behind as "evidence" several dead concentration camp prisoners they had re-dressed as German guards. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin mounted a similar staged provocation purportedly by Finland the same year.when he sent what Ukrainians called "little green men" — soldiers in fatigues but without identifying insignia — to occupy strategic locations in Crimea, a region of Ukraine.

"The overall goal, consistent with Russian propaganda objectives, is to reframe the narrative on the war in Ukraine," Nisos wrote in its

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