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No Bundeswehr troops in Ukraine, nor German tank crews
Photo: Screenshot of part of the post
On Sunday, the 24th of September, the German Ministry of Defense denied the information published by Russian state media that, allegedly, a German Leopard tank was destroyed along with the Bundeswehr crew in the military zone in Ukraine. Apart from that, it is general knowledge that Western countries are careful about sending their...
No statistics on suicide in Russian and Ukrainian prisons
Photo: A screenshot of the video
This Facebook post deliberately omits the context and creates propaganda that the Russian Army is humane with Ukrainian war prisoners. At the same time, it manipulates the calamities caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, presenting Russian prisons as humane places, although numerous reports inform about the ongoing torture, repression, beatings, inhumane treatment, and...
The video with the “Glory to Urine” “gaffe” is fake
Photo: Screenshot made by fact-checkers
The viral video with the alleged error on the billboard аmidst Times Square in New York with the inscription “Glory to Urine” instead of “Glory to Ukraine” is a complete lie and disinformation released to tarnish the reputation of Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as well as the host country. Unfortunately, many Macedonian language media...
The claim that Russia is at war with the “Anti-religious” Western civilization is a myth
Photo: part of the post with disinformation
One cannot claim – as the post does – that the anti-religious civilization, or the West, is fighting against Russia. Russia wants to impose itself as the main global defender of the traditional and religious, which could be seen from Putin’s speech, two days before the anniversary of Russian aggression. Once again, he...
The Ministry of Defense of North Macedonia is not hiring soldiers to send to Ukraine
Bearing in mind that NATO is not at war with Russia and is not sending soldiers to the front in Ukraine, as well as that the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia participates only in NATO and EU missions, one cannot claim that the MoD is hiring soldiers to fulfill Zelenskyy’s wishes i.e., to send them fighting in...
Putin is not saving the world from the “Deep State”, rather he is waging an aggressive war in Ukraine
Photo: Screenshot from the edited video
According to the investigative media Bellingcat, QAnon is a conspiracy theory falsely claiming that the former American President Donald Trump has been fighting a long time to defeat “Satanists, pedophiles, the deep state and the cabal” (frequently used terms in the narratives of the promoters). Although Trump is no longer the President and the...
The war or peace decision on Ukraine was not in the hands of NATO or America
The fact that Putin sent a request for NATO not to expand – which was rejected – and such a draft agreement was never signed by NATO, does not shift the military responsibility onto NATO. Stoltenberg, unlike the contents of the post, does not recognize the fact that NATO could have prevented the war provided it put an end...
It is not true that Ukraine has lower inflation rate than N. Macedonia
Ukraine does not have a lower rate of inflation than North Macedonia, as the post claims. In August 2023, Ukraine and North Macedonia had similar inflation rates (8.3% in North Macedonia and 8.6% – in Ukraine). Nevertheless, the rate was lower in Macedonia. Since the beginning of the war up to date, not once has Ukraine had a lower...
The Peace Corps implements community development projects; it does not promote trans-humanistic values
Photo: peacecorps.gov
The post is promoting a hostile narrative and demonizing the volunteers of the US Peace Corps in the country. According to the official website of the Peace Corps, 800 volunteers have worked throughout the country in schools, municipalities, civil society organizations and state institutions in order to help the development of the communities. The post claims that they...
Photographs cut from a 9-year-old video basis for claims that Prigozhin is alive
Photo: Screenshot from a video
The photographs shared in this Facebook post, in fact, are cut from a video of an event recorded back in 2014. Therefore, claiming that Prigozhin is alive on the basis of these photographs is manipulative, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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NATO is not at war with Russia, the Alliance is only providing support to Ukraine
Russia is not at war with NATO, hence it cannot be concluded that Russia defeated NATO. NATO condemns Russia’s brutal and unprovoked military aggression in Ukraine, which is an independent and democratic country and a close NATO partner. NATO is not sending weapons directly to Ukraine, but that is done by the member-states individually and that is stated on...
Ukraine is not conscripting persons under 18 years of age; the women are enrolled in the military register, but that does not imply their conscription
Ukraine lowered the age ceiling for military conscription from 27 to 25 years, but does not conscript persons younger than 18. Conscripting children in the Armed Forces is against the law in Ukraine. As far as Ukrainian women are concerned, they have been enrolled in the military register since 1st October 2022, but that does not automatically imply that...
Manipulative post justifies the Russian aggression, falsely claims that Macedonians lost their state
Photo: Screenshot from a video
The post we are fact-checking contains a series of manipulations and untruths by presenting the Russians as some kind of heroes fighting for a piece of land as though it was theirs, without even mentioning the disastrous damages inflicted and the thousand civilian victims suffered by Mariupol because of the Russian aggression. In addition, the...
QAnon Propaganda for Satanizing NATO and EU
Two theses in this post – the one on ”the satanic NATO” and that on “the pedophile EU” – look too much alike to the disinformation propaganda spread by the Kremlin about the West, in the attempt to justify Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. There were numerous attempts in the past by these conspiracy groups, which promote the combined...
Putin with two disinfo narratives from Vladivostok – The new weaponry and the USA are the villains, not Russia
Talking about new weaponry, international relations cases and mistakes made by Moscow – although those made by the USA were bigger – as well as about the Donald Trump case, the Russian President sent a variation of one and the same topic of two Russian disinformation narratives used for quite some time now, especially after Russia’s aggression in Ukraine...
”The Macedonian Sun” cannot be on the BRICS currency, as BRICS has no currency
The banknote is symbolic. It was a present given by the Russian Ambassador in South Africa, Ilya Rogachev, to the Head of the Diplomatic Mission of the UAE, Mahash Saeed Alhameli. BRICS, an informal group of countries composed of the Federal Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic...
EU will not deport men aged 18-60 back to Ukraine
According to the European Commissioner, the EU will not deport anyone against their will. That is, Ukrainian men currently living in Europe are not at risk of forced deportation. Also, the European Union does not plan to restrict the entry of men from Ukraine, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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Manipulations about Rama’s statement – Bulgaria will not attack North Macedonia
The fact-checked post, with its fuzzy text and the accompanying photos, purposefully manipulates the statement of the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, with the aim of creating a picture of some kind of military threat to North Macedonia from Bulgaria. Rama did not foresee such a thing happening but used an ironic joke to compare EU integration of the...
The claim that Zelenskyy’s mother-in-law has a villa in Egypt is sheer disinformation
The owner of the company that runs the luxury resort in Egypt, Naguib Sawiris, tweeted that it was disinformation that Zelenskyy, or whoever from his family, purchased a property in his resort (the luxury resort managed by his company), and that the villa that is mentioned is actually owned by an Egyptian family, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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America didn’t promise Russia that NATO would not enlarge
There is no treaty signed by the US, Europe, and Russia specifying that NATO will not enlarge. The idea of NATO expansion beyond Germany was not on the agenda in 1989, because the Warsaw Pact still existed. Mikhail Gorbachev confirmed it in an interview in 2014, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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