This article is the final part of a detailed report (the full report in PDF format is available here) prepared by Trust but Verify as part of a fact-checking investigation into the missile attack on the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv on July 8, 2024. The first part assessed the parameters of the missile that attacked Ohmatdyt and found that all these estimates fully correspond to the characteristics of the X-101 missile. The second part shows that all the arguments against the fact that it was an X-101 missile are based on false premises. The third part analyzes alternative versions expressed by officials and discussed in social media.

This article is the second part of a detailed report (the full report in PDF format is available here) prepared by Trust but Verify as part of a fact-checking investigation into the missile attack on the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv on July 8, 2024. The first part of the report assessed the parameters of the missile that attacked Ohmatdyt and found that all these estimates fully correspond to the characteristics of the X-101 missile. The second part analyzes the arguments against the fact that it was an X-101 missile.

This article is the first part of a detailed report (the full report in PDF format is available here) on our fact-checking investigation of the missile attack on the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv on July 8, 2024. This part provides the rationale for estimates of the parameters of the missile that hit Ohmatdyt and compares them with the characteristics of the X-101 missile.

On April 29, 2025, Moskovsky Komsomolets and Pravda.ru announced that the “Zhukovsky Research Center conducted the world's first supersonic civilian airplane test” (similar information ran in dozens of other Russian publications, see, for example, here, here and here). This news was based on a publication in the official Telegram channel of the Russian Government and was supported by a short video clip of the tests. 

According to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), annual inflation in December 2024 amounted to 9,5% [ref], and the average for 2024 is 8,4% [ref]. This allows the Russian authorities to claim that in the third year of the war, despite international sanctions, they managed to keep inflation below 10%, which is the boundary between moderate and galloping inflation, and to ensure real (inflation-adjusted) growth of macroeconomic indicators such as GDP and real incomes of the population.

Russian mass media (see more) and news agencies deny the tragedy of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine. In particular, they claim that as a result of the 1932-33 famine, the largest number of people in the USSR died not in Ukraine, but in Kazakhstan and Russia. 

Statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin: in an interview with Tucker Carlson on February 6, 2024: “When the Soviet Union was formed, it was already 1922, the Bolsheviks created Soviet Ukraine, which until now did not exist at all” and during a meeting with Valery Zorkin, chairman of the Constitutional Court, on May 23, 2023: “Before the formation of the Ukrainian SSR in 1922, there was no Ukraine in the history of mankind”.