SERIES: Russia and China appear to coordinate barrage of disinformation about Russia's ever-changing rationale for invading Ukraine

Four-part series: Russia and China have been using official government accounts and state-controlled outlets to spread false claims about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Hoaxlines has divided the report into four sections for ease of reading and organization. Part 2 is the section that is likely of most interest to readers as the analysis of the recent Russian and Chinese content appears here.

Part 1: The history of the bioweapons disinformation narratives and what is fact or fiction.

Russia and China resurrect disinformation rooted in Soviet-era active measures

Part 2: Russia’s changing story and closely timed, mirroring claims from Russia and China.

Russia changed its story about bioweapons. Then Russia and China flooded the world with disinformation.

Part 3: The Ukraine-US-Bioweapon narrative is similar to the conspiracy claims about COVID-19.

False Ukraine-bioweapons claims from Russia and China echoes their COVID-19 disinformation

Part 4: Clippings from the state-controlled media about the bioweapon disinformation from China and Russia.

Russia and China synchronize on false Ukraine-bioweapon conspiracy claims