Fact Check
Friday 22 December 2023
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“The mercenaries who have been actively recruited since the beginning of the special operation have mostly been liquidated. More than 5,800 militants were eliminated, including ... 466 from the United States of America ...”
Reports suggest Russia has vastly exaggerated the number of U.S. citizens who died fighting in Ukraine, largely as volunteers, not mercenaries. -
“If you ask me where they can obtain weapons, then one of the black markets where they [Hamas and Hezbollah] can get them is Ukraine. Very easily, without much effort, they can get whatever [they need] in Ukraine.”
Iran engages in accusation in a mirror, claiming Hamas and Hezbollah, which it arms, can get whatever weapons they need in Ukraine. -
“You say: ‘Why won’t you send them home?’ Why won’t they not commit law offenses on the territory of the Russian Federation?”
Russia detained U.S. citizens Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich on bogus allegations. -
"…the nuclear submarines Emperor Alexander III and Krasnoyarsk. These formidable missile carriers, unmatched in their class…"
Russia's two new nuclear submarines are not the world’s most advanced, but they pose a challenge to the U.S. and NATO. -
“Oh Russian Land! An exhibit of art by the Russian people’s artist Vasili Nesterenko. Ministry of Culture, Republic of Mordovia.”
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“The Cooperative Republic of Guyana recklessly violates international law, taking actions that exacerbate the territorial dispute and add to its illegal conduct of granting oil exploitation rights to Exxon Mobil over a sea area pending delimitation with Venezuela.”
Venezuela disregards the World Court and signals it could use force to settle Essequibo territorial dispute. -
“The responsibility for the recent emergencies in waters of Ren’ai Jiao [Second Thomas Shoal] lies completely with the Philippines.”
The latest incident happened around the Second Thomas Shoal, which is part of the Philippines exclusive economic zone. -
“It's widely known that the U.S. firm's credit rating on China and Chinese companies are politically biased.”
Moody's downgraded China’s credit rating based on an in-depth evaluation of its financial health, economic conditions and risks. -
"The trailer of the Putin movie is fake."
Source: https://youtu.be/k34LKIkTfLE?si=KbUlRme-WBh_lX5IThe trailer is authentic. It announces a political thriller Putin, produced in Poland and to be released in February 2024. -
“The Americans have no right to the Red Sea to announce that they reserve the right to respond.”
The United States was well within its rights to defend itself and commercial ships from unprovoked Houthi attacks on international waters. -
“For the developed countries, historically speaking, they have been polluting much more than the developing countries, they should do more to mitigate the climate change impact.”
The U.N. assesses China’s development rank as high. It’s also one of the world’s top three polluters, the other two being the United States and India. -
“We noticed what was said… by… D. G. Arakhamia, that it was former British Prime Minister B. Johnson who forbade Kyiv from signing a peace agreement with Russia... These revelations by D.G. Arakhamia convincingly indicate that the staging in Bucha was organized by Kyiv...”
David Arakhamia denied that Western officials in 2022 forced Ukraine not to sign a peace treaty with Russia. The March 2022 Bucha massacre, in which Russian troops killed hundreds of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war, has been well-documented.