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Disinfo: Ukrainians will disappear due to global warming

Summary

Ukrainian media predicted the disappearance of Ukrainians due to global warming. Ukrainians will not survive global warming and will disappear by 2050, they claimed.

Disproof

Misinterpretation of the quotes in the interview.

Ukrainian climate expert Svitlana Krakovskaya, who is member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate, said in an interview that she and her colleagues have analysed several scenarios for Ukraine on climate change by the middle of the century. The worst scenario could happen if no action is taken to help the environment. In this scenario, Svitlana Krakovskaya said that Ukraine and planet Earth will survive, but it will be difficult." She also stated other people from affected regions may move to Ukraine. She added "it will depend on our actions now."

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Tsargrad TV (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 197
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 13/05/2020
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Keywords: Ukraine, Climate, Abandoned Ukraine

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See earlier disinformation cases alleging that the Belarusian opposition, civic activists and independent journalists make kill lists for Western security bodies, that pro-Western Belarusian opposition prepares 'kill lists' and genocide, and that the Belarusian opposition plans genocide with coronavirus-infected, Soros-funded, test tubes, given by Pompeo.

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Disproof

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See an earlier disinformation case alleging that three types of Russophobia are turning Belarus into an anti-Belarus and anti-Russian state, and other examples of a similar false dilemma claiming that Belarus faces either normal development under Russia or a forced Polonization and economic devastation, that the only possible scenario for Ukraine and Belarus to prevent their descent into Nazism through the politicisation of national clothes is to become a Russian western federal area, and that the direction of Belarus and other post-Soviet countries' political development is either a union with Russia or unavoidable degradation.