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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 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...
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...
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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Prigozhin and his mysterious destiny – main disinformation highlight
Is he alive or did he really get killed in the plane crash on 23 August? This is the main public dilemma after the series of news and (dis)information related to the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s company plane, in which he was flying at the time of the crash, at least according to the official lists and information published...
Zelenskyy is not son of Soros
Photo: president.gov.ua
Zelenskyy’s father is not George Soros, but Oleksandr Zelenskyy, a university professor and a computer scientist, President of the Cybernetics and Computer Hardware Department at the Kyiv Rih State University of Economics and Technology. Zelenskyy’s mother is Rima Zelenskyy, who worked as an engineer. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s grandfather, Semyon Ivanovich Zelenskyy, served in the Army during World War II....
Ukraine has legally regulated surrogacy, not baby farms
Photo: Screenshot from the video
It is not true that the video calls upon Ukrainian women to transform their uteruses into baby-making machines. One can easily see in the original video that it is intended for foreign families concerned about the surrogacy process in wartime conditions. The post presents surrogate mothers as exploited, although they give their written consent for...
NATO is not sending weapons directly to Ukraine, and it has already sent aid to Slovenia for the floods
Photo: nato.int
Unlike the claim in the post, NATO is not sending weapons directly to Ukraine. NATO member-states individually are sending weapons and aid, together with other countries that are not NATO members, and that is clearly stressed on NATO’s website by Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg. It is not true either that NATO has not sent aid to Slovenia after it...
Putin is not a small child whо can be “lured” into attacking Ukraine
Opposed to the claims in the post we are fact-checking, Putin is the one who made a decision – completely unprovoked – to attack the territorial integrity of a sovereign country. In addition, Washington is constantly stressing that Russia can stop the war in Ukraine as soon as tomorrow, provided it withdraws from the territory of Ukraine. This means...
A post manipulates by saying that the Ukrainian Church is not Orthodox and that the peace depends on that
A high 72 percent of the Ukrainians declare themselves Orthodox Christians. Therefore, Orthodox Christianity is predominant in Ukraine and it is not logical to bring something back when it is already there. In addition, the post manipulates by claiming that peace in Ukraine depends on religion, although religion is a stumbling block when it comes to Russia. The resolution...
Lies about alleged people and organ trafficking in Ukraine are spread tendentiously and without evidence
Photo: Screenshot from the video
The claims about the alleged trafficking of people and organs in Ukraine are not substantiated with evidence and are based on arbitrary positions of the YouTuber Morris, known for spreading such disinformation in his show on previous occasions. This is familiar Russian propaganda and disinformation, according to which Western countries, allegedly, are abusing the war...
