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French documentary abused for false claims about Macedonian soldiers going to Ukraine
The video in the post was first online in September 2022. It is an excerpt from a 115-minute French documentary film titled: “A President, Europe, and War” with dialogues between Macron, Putin, Zelenskyy, and other world leaders. The post promotes the video as though it was a recent discussion between Macron and Zelenskyy and, on top of that, it...
The War in Ukraine Is Not the Work of Joe Biden and the “Deep State”
The war in Ukraine, which began in 2014 with Russia's annexation of Crimea and escalated in 2022 with the invasion of the entire territory of Ukraine, started on the orders of the supreme commander of the Russian army, President Vladimir Putin. Joe Biden and the "deep state" certainly did not plan, prepare, or order the invasion, as claimed in...
Russian Pseudohistorical Manipulation Reaches North Macedonia
The Russian Embassy in North Macedonia is marking the anniversaries of Macedonian historical figures on their social media platforms. This comes off as highly unusual and inappropriate for two reasons. Firstly, it is the Embassy’s job to promote its own country, not ours. Secondly, Russia has helped not helped any of those historical figures in any way. The Russian...
New attempt to minimize Zelenskyy’s authority through an American YouTuber
The headline of the article says that “a coup has taken place in Kyiv and Zelenskyy is no longer in charge.” This claim is attributed to Iversen. Truthmeter found the connection among her statements and their dissemination in Russia where she is presented as a “journalist”. The fact that Zelenskyy changed the commander of the Joint Forces of the...
Fact checkers traced the path of Russian disinformation on Zelenskyy, his family and inner circle
A new study by an international team of fact-checkers, led by Maldita.es, traced the path of Russian disinformation about Zelensky, his family, and those in his inner circle. The disinformation traveled from fake news portals and small YouTube channels, through X profiles (formerly Twitter), to RT and Russian embassies around the world, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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Intentional construct about the negotiations of Ukraine and Moldova with the EU
A Facebook post, responding negatively to the fact that Ukraine and Moldova received recommendations for starting EU accession talks, expresses mixed: personal opinions, which the author is fully entitled to express; some undisputable facts, which, of course, are legitimate; but also tendentious silence thereby depriving the public of the entire context of the situation; and even blatant lies that...
France did not deploy troops to Ukraine
The Defense Ministry of France denied that it sent troops to Ukraine when such disinformation on this topic started spreading on the social networks stimulated by Russian sources and their propagandists, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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The propaganda that Russia is fighting “Nazis in Ukraine” reemerges
The pro-Russian post aims to justify the military invasion of Russia in Ukraine. Presenting Ukraine as the land of the Nazis is a false propaganda platitude that Russian President Vladimir Putin used to justify the military invasion he started on the 24th of February 2022, completely unprovoked. The term “special military operation” is also a propagandistic phrase created by...
Zelenskyy did not buy a casino in Cyprus
It is disinformation that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bought a casino and a hotel in Cyprus through his offshore company. High political representatives from Cyprus confirm the lack of evidence, while the site that initially published the “news”, deleted it afterward, writes Truthmeter.mk.
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Suspicious footage claims Poland prepares a war against Russia
The post claims with no basis in fact that the Poles “are preparing for direct battle” against the Russians, while the latter are “ready and waiting”, suggesting that Poland would attack first. To support the claim, the post shares footage of а convoy of trucks transporting tanks, thereby leaving the impression that the Poles will attack the Russians with...
The EU disinformation trends mirrored in our country
Recently, similar disinformation has been circulating both in EU member states and in our country. Most of the April fact-checks in our country and the EU referred to disinformation related to the EU and the war that Russia is fighting in Ukraine. In our case, unlike in the EU, in third place are debunked advertisements i.e., fraudulent information relating...
How Russia links Ukraine and the West with Fico’s assassination
Pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives blaming Ukraine and the West for the attempted assassination of Slovak Prime-minister, Robert Fico, recall the same accusations related to the terrorist attack of City Hall Crocus in Moscow, which Truthmeter already covered. These unsubstantiated disinformation stories are part of a wider campaign of Russian official representatives and media, including Putin himself, to blame Ukraine, NATO,...
It is not true that Zelenskyy’s authority expires after the 20th of May
Lawyers specialized in Constitutional law said to the “Kyiv Independent” that extending Zelenskyy’s term is legal and in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine. Due to the martial law introduced when Putin sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine in February 2022, elections will not be organized when Zelenskyy’s term technically expires on 20 May. The martial law...
Russia is not winning on all fronts
Russian Army is somewhat advancing, but not on all fronts – mainly in the Donetsk region – while Russian Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, informs about taking over villages such as Bogdanovka, Novomihailovka and Pervomaiskoe, which is not much of a spectacular success for a superpower. Even today Russia does not have control over the entire Donetsk region (for example...
Intentionally and with no evidence, Ukraine and the West accused of being behind Moscow terrorist attack
The militant group Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack in Moscow. On the day of the attack – the 23rd of March – ISIS published a photograph of four attackers. On the 24th of March, however, ISIS released a video of the attack at the concert hall. The video, confirmed to be real by the BBC, shows...
Navalny’s death overshadowed Moscow’s disinformation on the military campaign in Ukraine
Despite this February marking the second anniversary since the start of Ukraine’s suffering at the hands of Russian aggression, which has resulted in thousands of casualties and never-ending destruction of everything significant for Ukraine and Ukrainians, Moscow’s disinformation campaign in regard to its military campaign continues to persistently spread throughout the world. Most recently, such disinformation was directly spread...
Germany’s Scholz rules out deployment of NATO troops in Ukraine
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has categorically ruled out the deployment of ground troops from NATO states to Ukraine in its war against Russia, publishes DPA news agency.
The chancellor opposed French President Emmanuel Macron's earlier comments that nothing was off the table to make sure Kiev wins the war, including the deployment of French troops.
At a Ukraine aid conference on...
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. So far, no one has announced any kind of mobilization. This speculation has been circulated...
Altered video of dancing Zelenskyy spreads on social networks in North Macedonia’s surroundings
Photo: Screenshot from the altered video
Since the beginning of the year, a new deepfake video of Zelenskyy dancing in a red traditional costume has spread on social networks. The video of the President of Ukraine is shared on Facebook and TikTok. The video, however, is a fabricated clip from 2020, showing a Russian dancer on some kind of a...
The alleged Nazism in Kyiv still the subject of Russian disinformation
Several disinformation narratives have prevailed this year in the Macedonian-language online space and media – from Ukraine’s “statehood being at stake” should the war continue, to the claim that Zelenskyy has lost popularity. The most consistent disinformation narrative, however, concerns the connection between Kyiv elites and Nazism – a narrative directly promoted by Putin and Medvedev. What stands out...
