Propagandists are attempting to discredit President Volodymyr Zelensky before an international audience — Ukrinform.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/52309984

Disinformation is spreading on social media about alleged new front pages of several international media outlets featuring quotes from an interview given by Zelensky’s former press secretary Yuliia Mendel to American pro-Russian blogger Tucker Carlson.

In particular, Russian bloggers on Telegram, as well as accounts on X and Facebook, have circulated screenshots of supposed front pages from Germany’s Bild, Britain’s Liverpool Echo, Portugal’s Público, France’s Ouest-France, and Israel’s The Jerusalem Post. These fake covers contain headlines with unflattering quotes allegedly attributed to Mendel about Volodymyr Zelensky, including claims about his supposed “drug addiction.” This is one of the recurring fake narratives used by Russian propaganda as part of its disinformation campaign against the Ukrainian President.

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It should be noted that Yuliia Mendel served as press secretary to President Volodymyr Zelensky from 2019 to 2021. In her interview with Tucker Carlson, she claimed, among other things, that during negotiations in Istanbul in 2022, Ukraine had allegedly been prepared to give up Donbas.

Later, Dmytro Lytvyn, communications adviser to President Zelensky denied this claim. Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk also stressed that President Zelensky had never considered surrendering Ukrainian people or territory as a path to peace.

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Mendel made her statements on the platform of far-right American blogger Tucker Carlson, known for his consistently anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, justification of Russian aggression, and sharp criticism of military aid to Ukraine. Carlson has repeatedly visited Russia, where he recorded a lengthy favorable interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and “Russian world” ideologue Alexander Dugin.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    43·
    10 days ago

    honestly we have no way of knowing anything that happens more than 40 miles away, except if we have trusted friends and acquaintances there that inform us about what they see with their own eyes. all the newspapers could be lying, how do you know they don’t?

    also i’m noticing that you post a shit ton of stuff about the ukraine russian war. are you caught up in it? I’m sorry if you are but i’m not gonna take propaganda from neither side.

    • esc@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      Do you use royal we or who exactly does no way of knowing what anything that happens more than 40miles away?

    • deft
      2·
      10 days ago

      Personally I think only idiots cannot see through the veil. But maybe that’s just me.

      Boil away the nonsense, understand your character’s motivations and be real.

      Zelensky could do drugs, probably does, he has to cope with a war and likely needs to stay awake and focused more than a regular person. Is that a fully drug addiction? Not really not a big deal. He’s an entertainer who kinda stumbled into this role and has Ukraine in his heart it seems at least a little.

      Putin for decades is terrible. Bombs his own people and definitely tied to human trafficking. Barely a leader of a country more of a crime boss. Sends Russians to die en masse because his three day operation soured and he doesn’t seem to care.

      Knowing that. Everything worthless becomes crap and the core points stand. Putin should fuckin die a horrible death and Ukraine deserves sovereignty.