Today is the 83rd anniversary of the Fântâna Albă Massacre.On April 1, 1941, 2000+ Romanians were massacred by the Soviet NKVD as they tried to escape from Northern Bukovina to Romania.The Soviet Union annexed Northern Bukovina from Romania in 1940.
This X post is from a biased news source, which is known for disseminating fake news from Poland. In 1941, around 2,000 Romanians walked together towards the new Soviet-Romanian border. According to Soviet official reports, no more than 44 civilians were killed. Ukrainian historian Serhiy Hakman estimates around 50 killed and many wounded.
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In March 2022, Visegrád 24 posted an unsourced tweet falsely claiming that Leonardo DiCaprio had donated $10 million to Ukraine. The false story was picked up by news outlets around the world, such as India's Hindustan Times, the U.K.'s The Independent and the Daily Mail, and American conservative websites The Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner.[11] Visegrád 24 also posted a fake story claiming that Pornhub had blocked access from Russia.[12][1]
In May 2023, Visegrád 24 shared footage of a fire in Krasnohvardiiske, falsely claiming that it showed a crashed helicopter in Belgorod.[13] That July, it misrepresented footage of Wigan Athletic football fans as showing Ukrainians celebrating the country's attack on the Kerch bridge.[14]
In March 2024, Visegrád 24 reported the 2024 Western Russia incursion, falsely claiming the Ukrainian paramilitary organization Freedom of Russia Legion had captured the towns of Kozinka and Glotovo in Belgorod Oblast, Russia.[15] However, these towns were captured in May 2023 and not March 2024 as reported by Visegrád 24.[16]
On 24 March 2024, Visegrád 24 reported that the Russian landing ships Azov and Yamal had been sunk and that the Russian Black Sea Fleet had no landing ships left.[17] However the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense posted on their X (Formerly Twitter) account about the strike claiming that they had struck but not sunk Azov and Yamal.[18] Satellite images also showed that Azov and Yamal had not been sunk.[19]
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