From lavish shopping sprees to luxury yachts, disinformation swirls around Ukraine's president. DW's Fact Check team investigates dubious claims that aim to weaken Western support for the country's ongoing war.
From lavish shopping sprees to luxury yachts, disinformation swirls around Ukraine's president. DW's Fact Check team investigates dubious claims that aim to weaken Western support for the country's ongoing war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become a renewed target for misinformation after online posts viewed tens of thousands of times baselessly claimed he purchased two luxury yachts in October 2023. The false posts cited fabricated documents that have since been disowned by the yachting association they cited. As of January 18, 2024, the yachts were still for sale, their brokers told AFP.
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Here are the facts: The NCAA is not transferring medals won by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to Riley Gaines. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not buy two multimillion-dollar yachts through proxies. And an explosion at a home in Arlington, Virginia, was not caused by a firefight with U.S. federal agents.