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Olena Churanova

@churanova.bsky.social
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fact-checker, editor at StopFake.org, media trainer, and senior lecturer at NaUKMA, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Pathetic how so called “disinformation experts”, “experts on Russian-Ukrainian war” which appears recently thousands by number, even don’t know or couldn’t agree that this war started in 2014 not in 2022.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The hardest thing after a night like this is to want anything at all, to get up and to do something. As one user wrote on Facebook, I don't know what else to write.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
How am I? The house is shaking. Kids in the corridor. Very loud in Kyiv. And remember, several days ago, people interested in Russian OSINT discussed how Dostoyevsky is a great author. Yeah, guys, come to Kyiv, listen to ballistic missile explosions, and then we'll talk about “great Russian culture”
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Russia is a stupid terrorist state:
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
According to the Mariupol City Council, about 300 people died in the theater bombing. The AP, in its own investigation, concluded that up to 600 people died. Today, Russia opened its own theater there, destroying evidence of one of its greatest war crimes during the full-scale war.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Literally no silent nights in Ukraine (tonight we have hundreds of drones and missiles). All these quotes that peace is SO CLOSE are bullshit. Russia understands only language of power, never language of diplomacy.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This is our night today. For those who in Kyiv. Red title as a target for Russian army. Very loud. It was fire and destruction near our house, but still it Is Ukraine who need to agree to barbaric conditions to end this war. Not the aggressor who start it.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Cherkasy, Ukraine. Parents are lighting up a soccer field with car lights for their kids to be able to have their usual practice and live kind of “normal” life. Russians can destroy our electricity but they can’t destroy our love and light inside Ukrainians. Credit to Olena Shabunina.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Sorry for the sensitive content. Ukraine again. Ternopil. West of Ukraine. There is no safe place here.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
That was the night in Kyiv. Son's school has no windows on the first floor. Kids go for learning anyway. Diplomats will talk about how they were disturbed. Soldiers will fight for our land. Russia still exists.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Ukraine hit targets in Russia that used in this barbaric war. Russia hit civilians, killed kids. Today 4 kids died because of Russians. And Trump administration put this in the same row as an evidence that nobody want to end this war. Crazy.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Kyiv tonight.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Very very loud in Kyiv. Ballistic missiles.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Clearly hear how Russia “want peace”. Now we’re awaiting for new missiles.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It’s how Russia want peace. 6 people died for the moment after this missile attack in Kyiv. Among them 6 y.o. boy.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Occupied Crimea. Kids from 10 to 17 were taken to military exercises.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Night in the metro, Kyiv. Ukrainians = values, love, humanity. Russians—everything is the opposite. Video from UNICEF, Ukraine.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
One more night in Kyiv near psychopath neighbour. Photo credit: National police of Ukraine
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
No sleep in Kyiv. Only pure hate and explosions.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Very loud in Kyiv. Ballistic missiles from Russia. Drones as usual - a lot.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The Russian terror of Ukrainians at night is continuing. Very loud in Kyiv. Pls, tell me right now about the «greatness» of Russian culture, which is no more than a culture of death.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Hard night in Kyiv. Russia is a terrorist state.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
life in Kyiv - it's when you want to sleep, want to finish your article for your PhD, and want to survive through another stupid drone attack from Russia.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Top-10 propaganda sources from Russia
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Key takeaways from #GlobalFact12: - AI is a major challenge; we need to develop AI literacy. - fact-checkers are adapting, building tools with LLMs while feeding them verified info. - social media downplays fact-checking, but users still rely on professional checks in debates.
facebook.com
Redirecting...
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The other hard night in Ukraine because of Russia. Our “flight radar”, but with drones and missiles.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This isn’t just a new tattoo. It’s a symbol of the Evil Mavka - resistance movement of UA women during the Russian occupation. It’s my sign of respect for the incredibly heroic women who do not give up in the most difficult life circumstances, and believe in Ukraine even more than the rest of us.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
That’s why I don’t believe in “good Russians”. Navalnaya: Crimea belongs to UA and it actually belongs to Russia now. It becomes a complicated question, because we should not forget that millions of people now have Ru passports and even UA authorities admit that this is a very complicated question.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/06/2025
Orwell prize for political writing awarded to novelist killed in Ukraine war
theguardian.com
Orwell prize for political writing awarded to novelist killed in Ukraine war
Victoria Amelina wins with her unfinished book Looking at Women Looking at War while Donal Ryan takes the award for political fiction with an intimate portrait of an Irish town A novelist killed in the Ukraine war has won the Orwell prize for political writing. Victoria Amelina, who died in July 2023 from injuries sustained in a Russian bombing of a restaurant in Kramatorsk, won the prize with her unfinished book Looking at Women Looking at War. Continue reading...
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
At #globalfact12 one of the speakers asking, which social media we want to leave to our children. And I’m just thinking about love of books that want my children have after all, not love of social media.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Didn’t expect all this reaction and all this support. You can’t imagine how it’s valued, important when you live during such times with psychopath at your next door. 🙌
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Congrats.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
You probably don't care. But it's Kyiv. It's the other war crime committed with Russian hands. among killed - 11 y.o. girl.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Kyiv. 23.06.25
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Today’s night in Kyiv. 352 drones. 11 ballistic missiles, 5 missiles. 6 people already dead.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Traveling to #globalfact12 while Iranian drones are flying over Kyiv from Russia. I will again remind why it is meaningless to talk about Ukraine without Ukraine, that Russian disinformation has led to all this chaos in the world, and that fact-checking is not enough.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
How “timely” the shelling of civilians in Donetsk happened after such a night in Kyiv. RU propaganda is already making full use of this to create information noise. The other example of how Russia doesn't care about the Donetsk/Luhansk regions at all, and how they use them for their propaganda.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Kyiv after today’s night. “Just military targets”, Russians said. 14 people killed so far.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"How many people do we have left?" the younger son asks in the morning, after today’s night.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Very loud in Kyiv tonight..
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
very funny
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Ukrainians has very flexible schedules. If you survive, you go on work, if you don’t - you’re not going.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
our nights, our mornings, our sunrises.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Evolution of the home chat during another sleepless night: - discussing whether or not to take shelter; - discussing how drones fall and burn; - asking ChatGPT if something could fall on us, it says, 'Nope.' - a competition for the best answer from the chatbot about what the Russians deserve.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Another no-sleep night because of Russia.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Yandex has blurred military facilities in Moscow. Now you can go to Google Maps and see them in more detail 🤣
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
this @snopes.com is broken, pls, bring the other one.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is the Ukrainian Pavilion at EXPO 2025 Osaka - the “Not for Sale” Store — a 52 m² space where nothing is for sale, but everything has meaning. Each object is a metaphor, each barcode reveals a true story. For example, a lamp tells of Ukrainian energy workers restoring power under fire.
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Olena Churanova @churanova.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Russian army hit energy infrastructure in Slovyansk, Donbas. Half of the city without electricity. But talks with Putin were productive, yes.
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