Mock News Sites Continue to Spread Disinformation About Ukraine

A group founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin is behind a report alleging Ukraine is engaging in “forced fertilization.“ A news site publishing the report shares an IP address with other news-like domains.

E. Rosalie
7 min readApr 7, 2024

The text has been updated to better distinguish which groups are referenced and when. Further context and information regarding the assessments have also been added.

A Ukraine-Focused Boston-Based Website — Nothing to See Here

A new Ukraine-focused website called the bostontimes.org claims President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has started a “forced fertilization” program comparable to the Lebensborn, a Nazi program that sought to produce future soldiers. The evidence for this is misrepresented footage of women who were filmed illegally during healthcare examinations from 2018 to 2019.

Russian Telegram channels have circulated variations of this Lebensborn claim since November 2023, but the catalyst for this specific article is content from the Foundation for Battling Injustice. The group, which uses the acronym FBI (we will use the acronym RuFBI), was established by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin. Prigozhin bequeathed everything, including Wagner PMC, to his son Pavel Prigozhin.

Boston Times Among First to Publish “Forced…

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E. Rosalie

Disasters & information (public health + nat sec) | Johns Hopkins alum | @COVID19Tracking alum | Mapping medical misinfo 💉 and information disorder