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| - The mistake appeared on LiveNOW from Fox, a news service delivered by Fox Television Stations.
However, while LiveNOW from Fox and Fox News are both part of the Fox Corporation, they are not interchangeable nor run by the same business within the corporation.
On April 21, 2025, claims (archived) circulated that Fox News called the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv a Russian city during an Easter broadcast.
One X user posted a screenshot showing the alleged mislabeling, captioned: "Meanwhile, Fox News claims that Kyiv is Russia and broadcasts 'Patriarch Kirill'." The screenshot showed three livestreams of Easter services with one labeled "Kyiv, Russia." Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine.
The claim also circulated on X (archived), Facebook (archived), Threads (archived), Bluesky (archived) and Reddit (archived).
Screenshots showed that the mistake occurred during a broadcast showing midnight masses in Moscow, Kyiv and the Vatican ahead of Easter Sunday on April 21, 2025. The logo for LiveNow, a Fox station, appeared on the screenshots. On April 20, LiveNOW from Fox posted (archived) on its X account, "LiveNOW made an unintentional mistake Saturday evening during extensive live coverage of Easter services from around the world. The error occurred during the transition between global live events and was corrected and acknowledged on-air. We regret and apologize for the mistake."
However, while LiveNOW and Fox News are both owned by the Fox Corporation through Fox TV Stations and Fox News Media, respectively, they are not the same channel. Therefore, while the mislabeling on LiveNOW from Fox did happen, we rate this claim mostly true.
Russia and Ukraine have been at war since February 2022, when a Russian invasion escalated a territorial conflict between the nations that began in 2014.
We reached out to LiveNOW from Fox for any additional comment on the mistake and await a reply.
The claim spread extensively in Ukrainian news outlets and included screenshots from LiveNOW's broadcast, with the mistake appearing at various different times.
On the evening of April 20, 2025, the news had reached Ukrainian officials. Heorhii Tykhyi, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote (archived) on X, "If this was a mistake rather than a deliberate political statement, there should be an apology and an investigation into who made the mistake."
LiveNOW from Fox said in its statement earlier that same day, "We regret and apologize for the mistake."
Russia's President Vladimir Putin announced an Easter truce in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine starting in the afternoon on April 19, 2025. However, hours into the truce, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed (archived) on X that Russia had attacked the Kursk and Belgorod regions of Ukraine.
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