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What's fake, what's real? Stories from the information war over Ukraine

What's fake, what's real? Stories from the information war over Ukraine. BBC disinformation reporter Marianna Spring speaks to people caught up in the battle for the truth.

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How an Instagram influencer survived a bombing - and got caught in the information war.

Meeting the woman who survived the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol and found herself entangled in the information war over Ukraine.

Photos of Marianna Vyshemirsky - wrapped in a duvet and with her forehead bloodied - have become some of the iconic images of the Russian invasion. 
Marianna, a beauty blogger who was about to give birth, was caught up in the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol on 9 March.
And in the aftermath of the attack, Marianna soon faced another onslaught - this time of disinformation and hate aimed at her and her family.
As Russia attempted to deny it had struck the hospital, Marianna was falsely accused of “acting” for staged photos. Russian diplomats even claimed that she had “played” not one, but two different women. Their allegations were false - so what was the truth?
In her podcast War on Truth, Marianna Spring has investigated the stories of people caught up in the information war over Ukraine. And in this episode, she spoke to Marianna Vyshemirsky after the beauty blogger was evacuated to her hometown in a part of Donbas controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
Producer: Ant Adeane
Editor: Ed Main
Series mixed by Alex Portfelix

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