Russia's disinfo campaign ramps up with false claims US is afraid to give Kyiv heavy weapons and that food crisis started pre-war

The Center shared another selection of Russian disinfo.

Russian propaganda media continues to spread misinformation and fake stories.

Russian media commented on the Ukrainian fighters' evacuation from Azovstal and said that "only 1,750 Ukrainian soldiers left Azovstal in two days."

"About 2,500 soldiers were in Azovstal at the beginning of the evacuation. So, the number of surrounded Azovstal grouping still greatly outnumber allied forces in Mariupol," the Russian propagandists say.

Russian media, citing the newspaper Politico, for the purpose of manipulating, announced that the US refuses to provide Ukraine multiple rocket launcher M270. Russian media explained that the US "fears that Kyiv will use weapons to hit targets in Russia."

The Russian Ambassador Anatoliy Antonov to the US accused the West of the world food crisis and said that the problem of food security began long before the full-scale war in Ukraine.

"Illiterate macro steps of the West undermined the world food security, problems in this area began long before the special military operation in Ukraine," he says.