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Did Volodymyr Zelensky just belly dance? Sorry, no: it’s a deepfake
Does Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky actually have a secret talent for belly dancing? That’s what a number of accounts on Twitter and TikTok are saying, with video to prove it. However, it turns out that the viral video is actually a deepfake that’s been circulated by pro-Russian accounts in an attempt to discredit the Ukrainian president.
FAKE: The mayor of Riga promised to close the Riga Russian Theater
Mārtiņš Staķis did not promise to close the Mikhail Chekhov Russian Drama Theater in Riga.
FAKE: In Ukraine, women with a chemical education are being recruited for the war to prepare ‘provocations’
The Russian media quotes a Kremlin protege of the people’s militia in the so-called “LPR” that women who have an education in chemistry, biology or veterinary medicine are allegedly being recruited for the war in Ukraine. The publication adds that in this way Ukraine is preparing for “provocations” with chemical weapons.
This is a fake. There is no convincing evidence that women are being recruited into the Armed Forces of Ukraine to prepare “provocations” with chemical weapons.
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