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• Two photos have been circulating online that show shops in the Czech Republic with posters hung up banning entry to Ukrainians. However, the owners of these shops say that they never hung up these posters. The media outlet that first published them now says that they made a mistake and that the image was likely edited.
• A video has been circulating online that some claim shows Ukrainian refugees being kicked out of hotels in Bulgaria. In reality, the refugees weren’t kicked out, they were just being moved to different accommodations.

The Czech businesses that supposedly barred entry to Ukrainians

Social media users have been sharing two photos that they say show two shops in Prague with posters hung up saying that Ukrainians are not allowed to set foot on their premises.

The photos were published on May 26 on "Intel Slava Z", a pro-Russian Telegram channel, where they garnered more than 127,000 views.

"The shopkeepers and owners say that they’ve had enough of theft and terrible behaviour from refugees,” says the author of the post.

The photos were also posted on Twitter the same day, in Czech and Spanish and in English. They also circulated on Facebook on May 26.

The photos were first shared by the English-language Czech publication Prague Morning on its Twitter account on May 26, in a post that has since been deleted.

Several Czech media outlets visited the two shops featured in the photo, Punčocháče Karlín and Inside. Both are located in...

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