Likely false
Thursday 26 May 2022
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“These drones were presumably used to spray toxic chemicals to cause harm to both the Russian armed forces and the civilian population …”
The agricultural drones in a video posted by the Russian embassy are made by a Chinese firm and used by farmers worldwide. -
"I underline, it's a rocket Tochka-U, we don't have such a weaponry in our republics, Donetsk and Luhansk, and in the Russian Federation in the army, they don't have it either."
In fact, reports say Russian forces do possess the Tochka-U missile system, and videos show that it was trucked into Ukraine. -
“The information published in the media about the inmate Trevor Reed’s hunger strike does not correspond with the reality. … He is taking food according to the daily schedule.”
Reed’s lawyer confirmed to Polygraph.info that her client, a former U.S. Marine, told his Russian jailers he would start a hunger strike on November 4. -
"China firmly opposes and combats all forms of cyberattacks. It will never encourage, support or condone cyberattacks.”
Beijing denies role hacks, but analysts regularly see a Chinese state hand in cyberattacks -
“A report of CNN claiming that the Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate have killed enemy’s commando soldiers after surrendering is not true. A fake scene has been montaged with another scene of 22 commandos who had been killed during fighting in Faryab province.”
There is no evidence of deceptive editing in the video, and witnesses told CNN the surrender and executions happened. -
“China has stated its position on Xinjiang-related issues on many occasions. The accusation of ‘forced labor’ is a sheer lie.”
Despite many roadblocks to verification, there is mounting evidenced of forced labor -
“Vietnam will stay on guard against and firmly resist any schemes to undermine the Vietnam-China relations, and will never follow other countries in opposing China.”
A source who was present says the Vietnamese president made no such statement, which is at odds with Vietnam’s interests and history. -
“According to the press service of the People's Militia of the Republic, over the past two weeks, 244 military personnel have deserted from positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
There is no evidence to support the desertion assertion, and the Russian-led separatist sources are infamous for spreading disinformation. -
“Iran rejects the ‘suspicious rumors’ circulating about the rocket attack that targeted a U.S. airbase in Erbil and condemns ‘suspicious attempts’ to link the incident to the Islamic Republic.”
Iraqi and Kurdish security sources say a proxy group for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind a deadly rocket attack in Erbil. -
“... the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists carried out 35 attacks in the de-escalation zone in Idlib … terrorist organizations … are preparing to stage a new false flag chemical attack with the aim of accusing the Syrian Arab Army.”
There’s been no credible proof of “false flag” chemical attack in Syria, but the Assad regime is credibly accused of several hundred real chemical attacks. -
"In a letter to me, he [Khodorkovsky] pleaded [guilty] and asked to release him before his prison term ended because his mom was ill and died, and I did that, I pardoned him."
Ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky never admitted guilt before his fraud conviction and claims he did not admit guilt in his pardon request to Putin. -
Iran's Foreign Ministry “rejected the false news of the presence of al-Qaida members in Iran and refused certain media reports claiming that one official of the terrorist group was assassinated in Iran.”
Sources since mid-October have reported the likely assassination of al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, in Tehran, where he was living under an alias.