Fact Checks
Tuesday 20 August 2024
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The Galaktika (shopping mall) is on fire. A huge number of people burned alive. Children. Women are screaming, hysterical, because their children are there. We saved as many people as we could, pulled them out. ...Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin), …Ukraine needs to be taken over and everyone needs to be cleaned out.”
The Kremlin-appointed governor of Russian-controlled Donetsk in Ukraine said 11 people suffered moderate or minor injuries during the Galaktika mall fire. -
“MONKEYPOX is a scam. Don't comply. Refuse. • Pfizer wants to clear its COVID-19 vaccine stocks after people shunned them. • Afrika's corrupt political establishment wants to divert the boiling GenZ rebellion. Mpox is another scam by WHO crook.’’
Mpox killed 517 and infected 17,000 this year alone in Africa. With new, more aggressive mutations, it has elevated to a global health crisis. COVID-19 vaccines do not apply to mpox prevention. Jynneos, a vaccine used in preventing smallpox, is used to treat the mpox virus. -
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela categorically rejects the publication of the so-called ‘Preliminary Report’ by the Electoral Expert Panel of the United Nations, which disseminates a series of lies.”
The U.N. team observed Venezuelan authorities’ failure to uphold “basic transparency and integrity measures” necessary to hold credible elections. The report is well documented. -
“[W]hat kind of negotiations can we have with those [Ukraine] who indiscriminately attack civilians and civilian infrastructure, or pose threats to nuclear power facilities?”
Putin provided no evidence to back his accusations. Neither Russian nor international authorities investigated the allegations, and Russia has a history of fabricating Ukrainian war crimes. -
“The US set a number of impossible conditions for the Sudanese authorities, foremost of these they refused to invite the Sudanese Government to the talks extending the invitation only to the Sudanese Army while ironically inviting the UAE Government that sponsors the RSF militia, to the talks!”
There is no evidence the United States set any conditions for Sudanese participation. According to the United Nations, Sudan does not have a government, and the United Arab Emirates and Egypt are key to a successful cease-fire. -
“The Ukrainian actions are an evident terrorist action. No one hides the fact that American weapons have become a murder weapon of ordinary Russians. Attacks on schools, hospitals, ambulances and residential buildings in Russia cannot be recognized as a right of self-defense.”
Ukraine has the right under international law to extend its operations into Russian territory, and strike Russian military targets, to defend itself against Moscow’s aggression. -
“The journalist is seen sitting in a restaurant with his ‘source,’ as the pair discuss in Russian how to hand over secret data on the country’s defense industry in a way that won’t allow the authorities to track the leak.”
The FSB footage published by RT does not substantiate the espionage charges leveled at Gershkovich, but shows he was engaged in normal journalistic activities. -
"I have organized protests in Nigeria and abroad and can tell you that this current planned protest is not against economic hardship, as the organizers tell you. These people are opportunists. They are seeking to ride in the anger of some Nigerians to achieve their political ambitions.''
While the organization of the Nigerian protests remains murky, their demands are based on real economic and governing issues. -
“There are no antigovernmental protests taking place, but rather pockets of violence with destabilizing purposes that seek to create conditions for foreign intervention by spreading chaos in the national territory.”
Evidence shows the Venezuelan government rigged the presidential poll, sparking mass protests that the authorities try to suppress and discredit. -
“[T]here were two dead, ten wounded, two armored personnel carriers and two pickup trucks were disabled. On the other hand, about twenty terrorists were neutralized; vehicles and a large amount of military equipment were destroyed.”
The actual death toll is reportedly much higher than what the Malian Armed Forces declared. Journalists verified videos showing dozens of bodies of Malian soldiers and the Russian Wagner troops killed in the fight. -
“Apparently, this is confirmation that Western forces have taken over coordination over the militants.”
No evidence has surfaced linking the West to attacks against Wagner, although Ukraine has indicated it provided support to Mali separatists battling Russian troops. -
“Russia does not interfere in the internal political life of other states.”
To project influence, Moscow habitually goes beyond diplomacy, using malicious hybrid strategies and, in some instances, wars of aggression.