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Autumn has arrived and the Russian media has started recycling a favorite false narrative about Ukraine -- that its heating system is in a state of collapse, meaning that major cities will be left without natural gas supplies this winter.Ukrainian fact checkers have regularly debunked such claims, which started appearing after Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. But they are even easier to disprove this year, because Russian media are reusing reports and video footage already broadcast last year.On September 28, Gazeta.ru, owned by the Russian government energy giant Gazprom, ran an item headlined: Disruption of the heating season: Will Kyiv be left without gas in the winter?" The article claimed Naftogaz of Ukraine
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