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Claim

False

“The 2014 hack of Ukraine’s Central Election Commission changed the declared result”

Reviewed September 22, 2026

Verdict

False. The fabricated results page never touched a vote: Ukrainian ballots are paper, counted by hand at the precinct and physically delivered for aggregation. The published official result matched the count, and CERT-UA assessed that the attack could in no way have determined the outcome.

UkraineApplies to: Ukraine 2014 Early Presidential Election

What the evidence shows

ResearchNATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE)2015
Revolution Hacking — Nikolay Koval, in Cyber War in Perspective: Russian Aggression against Ukraine
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Observer reportOSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)June 30, 2014
Ukraine, Early Presidential Election, 25 May 2014 — ODIHR final report
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Published September 22, 2026
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