EU’s financial assistance for Ukraine does not mean that Europe is at war with Russia
The EU has never called for a war with Russia but has helped Ukraine to preserve its territorial integrity and democratic society. Europe condemns Russian aggression and appeals for it to stop. The claim that Macedonian citizens should prepare for mobilization is just arbitrary....
Putin did not say that Bulgaria should be divided
A post on a Russian blog which is someone’s personal opinion first made rounds in Bulgarian media and then in Macedonian media and social networks, with a special addition – a statement allegedly made by Putin regarding dividing Bulgaria. However, Putin has never made...
There is no evidence that Ukraine is losing 30,000 troops per month in the war with Russia
Photo: ukrinform.net
Ukraine’s former Public Prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, is spreading unconfirmed data regarding the number of killed and wounded Ukrainian troops. In fact, in his own statement he calls upon authorities in Ukraine to publish the accurate data of wounded soldiers, thereby tacitly admitting that...
The trust of the Ukrainians in Zelenskyy is not at 42%
Source: ukrinform.net
There is no publicly accessible opinion poll in Ukraine which shows that the trust in the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy is 42 percent. Research by the Kyiv International Institute for Sociology shows that the public trust in Zelenskyy is 62 percent. However,...
Interviews, newspaper sections, shows and columns – The growing presence of China in the media in North Macedonia
Collage of photographs by Meta.mk
TV shows, newspaper sections dedicated to China, columns and interviews of the Chinese Ambassador to North Macedonia, as well as promoting and publishing media content from leading Chinese media that are under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party....
EU does not negate the Macedonian nation, history and statehood
The facts show that the EU does not deny the Macedonian language, identity, and statehood in any way whatsoever. The reason why Ukraine and Moldova started EU accession talks before North Macedonia is not related to the EU disputing the Macedonian nation, language, history,...
A doctored video employed to mock Biden
Photo: A screenshot of the video
The sound was edited and does not correspond to the sound of the original video from Biden and Zelenskyy’s press conference (12 December), published by the prestigious Forbes. The audio was technically processed and edited, so it creates the...
The video of the Official arrival ceremony for Putin in UAE was published by several global media
Photo: A screenshot of the video
The video of the arrival ceremony for Russian President Vladimir Putin organized by the United Arab Emirates was published by several global media, such as Telegraph, Sky News, France 24, and CNN, which tells that the broadcast of the...
Ukraine does not send pregnant women to fight the Russians
Photo: Screenshot from the video in the FB post
There is no relevant evidence in support of the video. According to the Centre for Strategic Communication established by the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy on countering disinformation, the video is fake and fabricated....
A manipulation with altered photograph to show Nazy symbol on the Ukrainian uniform
Photo: Screenshot of the FB post
The photograph in the fact-checked post, showing two people with Nazi symbols on their uniforms, is altered. Foreign fact-checkers have determined that the Ukrainian flag emblem was added to the uniform of the man on the left. The eagle...
“Russian inclination” is constructed from a 15-year old photograph used in news reports on the Name Dispute
Photo: Screenshot of the FB post
The photograph in the post we are fact-checking was used by Russian media in 2007 in the context of reporting on the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece at the time. Parts of the map posted belong to Greece...
Bulgaria did not allow the overflight of Lavrov’s plane due to the sanctions against Zakharova, not because of N. Macedonia
Sergey Lavrov at the press conference in Skopje, 01.12.2023
Photo: Bojan Blazhevski, meta.mk
The spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, was part of the Russian delegation at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Skopje. Her presence on the Russian plane forced Bulgaria to...
Levica snatched up Kremlin’s megaphone
Representatives of Levica on the celebration in Moscow on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Soviet Pioneers Photo: Official Levica's FB page
A large part of the public in North Macedonia already perceives Levica (The Left) as a pro-Russian party,...
Blinken and Osmani: We remain united in our support for Ukraine
Photo Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and North Macedonia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani welcomed the decision that paves the way for Malta to become the next chairman of the OSCE in 2024, which...
Claim that Zelenskyy was singing in Russian language based on digitally altered video
Photo: Screenshot from the video
It’s not Zelenskyy the one who sings in the video shared on Facebook. Furthermore, the singing is not in Russian. The video is digitally altered, and Zelenskyy was “inserted” in the place of the Ukrainian comedian Vasyl Baydak, who with...
Video from 2013 of a hospital in Egypt presented as recorded in the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
Photo: Screenshot from the video
This video clip shared on Facebook was not made recently – i.e., not in November 2023, in a hospital in Gaza… It was recorded 10 years ago in a hospital in Cairo. The video clip is inaccurately presented, and the...
The barcode does not signify product’s country of origin
Photo: Gerd Altmann on Pixabay
The post we are fact-checking falsely suggests that if the barcode of the product starts with the digits 729, that means that the product was manufactured in Israel, which according to the barcode assigning company is not true. The digit...
Harvard students walked out of Israeli consul’s lecture but in 2019
hoto: Screenshot from the video
This event really happened, but not recently – November 2023, and not as an expression of solidarity with more than 4 thousand brutally killed children, as the Facebook post claims, but in 2019. The video clip was published by the...
Scholz did not feign there was a rocket attack before he left Tel Aviv Airport
Photo: Screenshot of the video
One cannot claim that all media were servicing some kind of Netanyahu propaganda as suggested by the post. The videos show that the sirens clearly alarmed for an air raid and rockets could be seen (according to the texts, the...
Deepfake video manipulates that General Zaluzhny is preparing a military coup
Photo: Video screenshot
The video in which the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, allegedly, calls for a military coup and speaks against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a high-quality fake video, or so-called “deepfake”, created with the help of artificial...