2023-12-25 19:48:24
A website founded by a former US Marine residing in Russia is circulating the bulo that the president of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, had acquired two yachts charged to the solidarity funds contributed by Washington. Despite the falsehood of the accusationthe hoax managed to circulate among North American congressmen at the delicate moment when the approval of a millionaire financial aid package to the country invaded by Russia in February 2022, just reported the BBC verification service.
According to information that has proven to be false, two members of Zelensky’s entourage, people from your confidenceacted as front men in the acquisition of the vessels Lucky Me46 meters long, and MyLegacy, 59 meters. For both boats, the president would have paid a whopping 75 million dollars.
He BBC verification service has demonstrated not only that the accusation is false, but also that the vessels in question have not been sold even.
Vehemently denied
Despite the vehemently denied carried out by the kyiv authorities, the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene recently posted a tweet calling the sending of financial aid to Ukraine “the money plot “most corrupt in history” and in which he included the link to the fake news. Another Republican, Senator J.D. Vancealso mentioned the issue of yachts in the podcast he runs Steve Bannonthe controversial former assistant to the former president Donald Trump. “There are people who would cut Social Security, who would send grandparents into poverty, in exchange for what? That one of Zelensky’s ministers can buy a bigger yacht?”
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The story emerged in an odark YouTube channel with few followers and was later reproduced by DC Weeklyalong with photographs of the two yachts and documents that supposedly attested said transaction. The sellers, however, confirmed to the British chain that the boats they were still for sale and that the documents shown in the information were crude fakes.
In fact, the publication in question, DC Weekly, It is not based in Washington. It was founded by John Mark Dougana former Marine who worked as a deputy sheriff in Palm Beach (Florida) before moving to Russia in 2016. The publication has echoed numerous fake newsamong them that Russia was destroying biological laboratoriesand is full of articles written through artificial intelligence and formed by fake names of reporters.
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