Disinfo: Expert: The coronavirus will kill Ukraine in days

Summary

The coronavirus will kill Ukraine in days, according to the expert Olyaksandr Teplyuk. If the virus should spread to Ukraine, the country, where the Ministry of Health is in disarray and the national health care system is in ruins, will not be able to cope with this challenge. If the contagion, God forbid, should appear, there will be no one capable of addressing the issue. The only thing Ukraine can do is to sit down and declare that all is under control.

Disproof

An unfounded claim on Ukraine's readiness for handling cases of the coronavirus. Ukraine's national security council have convened to discuss means of containing an outbreak of the virus. The expert referred to in the claim is not an expert in medical issues. This claim is in line with a recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative, questioning Ukraine's state institutions. See other examples here and here.

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  • Reported in: Issue 182
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 27/01/2020
  • Outlet language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Ukraine
  • Keywords: coronavirus, Ukrainian disintegration, Ukrainian statehood
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Jan 26, 2020
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Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Nazi/Fascist Baltic States. The Baltic States did not ignore the commemoration of the Holocaust victims. Lithuanian and Latvian presidents attended the ceremony to commemorate the victims of Holocaust in Poland. Lithuanian and Latvian speakers of parliament attended the forum in Jerusalem.

Disinfo: Poland's government throws itself into disgusting Holocaust revisionism

As a consequence of the obsession with Russia, Poland’s government throws itself into disgusting Holocaust revisionism. The present Polish government refused to give the Soviet Union any credit for the liberation of Auschwitz and instead insisted that Poland was nothing but an innocent victim of the Nazis and the Soviets.

[Polish president Andrzej] Duda’s Party “Prawo i Sprawiedliwość” (PiS) even lobbied the EU Parliament to present this as a historical fact in a declaration – to the wrath of Russia, where this is seen as spitting on the graves of almost 27 million Soviet citizens who died in the war against the Hitler regime and of about 600,000 soldiers who gave their lives especially for the liberation of Poland.

Warsaw went so far as to completely ignore the 75th anniversary of its liberation from the Nazis and instead to call this day the beginning of the “occupation” by the USSR. The new record-breaking low point, however, was certainly the opinion article published by Politico, in which Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki claimed that the Soviets had deliberately halted Polish advance in the summer of 1944 instead of advancing the liberation of Warsaw or Auschwitz.

Jan 26, 2020
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Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative distorting the events of the World War II.

In his op-ed for Politico, Morawiecki notes that "liberation of Warsaw" is an overgenerous term, particularly in the context of Soviet actions before, during, and after the Second World War.

Disinfo: Crimea was returned to Russia

Bloomberg talks about Putin’s achievements in 20 years. One of these is that Moscow succeeded in returning Crimea to Russia.

Jan 26, 2020
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This is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the illegal annexation of Crimea.

While the articles make reference to Bloomberg and its recent analysis of Putin's Russia, the later did not write that Crimea returned to Russia, but rather that Russia "annexed Crimea from Ukraine".