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“A significant portion of United States and European Union military funding to the Ukrainian Armed Forces is being stolen or misappropriated as of April 2026.”

The available evidence does not substantiate the assertion that a significant portion of US and EU military funding to the Ukrainian Armed Forces is being stolen or misappropriated. The most frequently cited supporting evidence concerns oversight gaps in $26 billion of civilian budget support — a distinct category from military aid — and a single domestic defense-sector corruption case with no quantified link to foreign military funding flows. Official military-aid audits in the evidence pool flag donor-side procurement and accounting issues, not confirmed diversion by Ukrainian forces.

“Ukrainian forces killed thousands of Russian children in the Donbas region before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.”

This claim is contradicted by every credible international monitoring body. OSCE and UN data document approximately 150–162 total child deaths across all parties in the Donbas conflict from 2014 to early 2022 — not "thousands." These casualties were caused by multiple parties, including Russian-backed separatists, mines, and explosive remnants — not exclusively by Ukrainian forces. The "thousands" figure originates from unverified Russian state-aligned sources and serves as war-justification propaganda.