Fact Check
Wednesday 3 January 2024
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Human rights groups and trusted media outlets have confirmed that Pakistan has been deporting Afghan refugees awaiting resettlement in the United States.
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“We strike with high-precision weapons at locations where they make decisions, where military personnel and mercenaries gather, at other similar centres, and at military facilities, above all.”
Russia has systematically targeted Ukrainian civilian infrastructure since invading almost two years ago. -
"I called it a military operation because war is when two countries declare it. Let us be glad that there is no war yet, because war is a general mobilization."
Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine meets the international consensus definition of “war.” -
#Ukraine has confirmed by releasing a video that it has received the first batch of F-16 fighter jets!!!
The video is an advertisement for a Ukrainian clothing company and has nothing to do with the delivery of F-16s. -
“No person has been arrested in connection with the release of a video filmed at the Rasht bazaar.”
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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.