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DISINFO: The European Commission accuses Ukraine of flooding the EU with heroin
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: tvzvezda.ru ( archived) *
  • Date of publication: December 21, 2017
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Countries / regions discussed: Ukraine
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DISINFO: The European Commission accuses Ukraine of flooding the EU with heroin

SUMMARY

The European Commission has published a document in which it accuses Ukraine of flooding the EU with heroin.

RESPONSE

Zvezda TV, owned by Russia’s Ministry of Defence, is well known to spread disinformation https://euvsdisinfo.eu/dependent-media-russias-military-tv-zvezda/. The document in question is the European Commission’s first report to the European Parliament and the EU Council on EU visa liberalization pertaining to the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership countries ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-is-new/news/20171220_first_report_under_suspension_mechanism_en.pdf, . The report concerns three former Soviet republics, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, all of whom have a visa free arrangement with the European Union. As regards Ukraine, the report states that Ukraine is “a transit country for various illicit commodities trafficked to the EU”. Nowhere in the report is Ukraine accused of flooding EU countries with heroin nor does the report allege that crime has increased since Ukraine entered into a visa free regime with the EU.

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