Propaganda and fake news on the war in Ukraine: data from Russian-speaking social media communities

The data set contains posts from social media networks popular among Russian-speaking communities. Information was searched based on pre-defined keywords ("war", "special military operation", etc.) and is mainly related to the ongoing war in Ukraine with Russia. After a thorough review and analysis of the data, both propaganda and fake news were identified. The collected data is anonymized. Feature engineering and text preprocessing can be applied to obtain new insights and knowledge from this data set. The data set is useful for the study of information wars and propaganda identification.