“There are no Russian troops in Crimea. It’s a civil war in Ukraine. MH17 was shot down from another plane. Ukraine is a failed state.” These are all false narratives that were created to undermine Ukraine’s response to Russian aggression and sow divisions between pro-Europe and pro-Russian populations in Ukraine, according to Myroslava Gongadze, the head of Voice of America’s Ukraine Service. As a journalist covering the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine, she has heard them all.

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