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Disinfo: US controlling the intelligence services of Germany and other countries

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The US is controlling the intelligence services of Germany and other countries. It uses Austrian spy scandal to weaken the relations between Russia and EU. Next US’ targets would be Hungary and Italy.

British security services are behind the Russian-Austrian spy row. It is the continuation of the Skripal case.

Disproof

No evidence given. Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about alleged US conspiracy and Skripal's poisoning.

A senior Austrian military officer is believed to have spied for Moscow for decades, Vienna said on Friday. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced on Friday that the suspected espionage case had been uncovered and handed over to prosecutors.

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  • Reported in: Issue 125
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 12/11/2018
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: Austria, UK, Russia, US
  • Keywords: Sergei Skripal, Conspiracy
  • Outlet: "Pravo Golosa" TV Centre, timing @ 05:25 & 21:35
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Kyiv was never fully liberated from the Nazis

Kyiv was never fully liberated [from the Nazis] [context: 75th anniversary of Kiev’s liberation from the Nazi occupation].

November 13, 2018
Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation about Ukraine and the Nazis that is repeated ever since the outbreak of the Euromaidan revolution. euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=Ukraine&disinfo_issue=&disinfo_keywords%5B%5D=77101&date=

The spontaneous onset of the Euromaidan protests was a reaction of large parts of the Ukrainian population to former President Yanukovych’s sudden departure from the Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013. The total number of members of radical groups, e.g. the "Right Sector", never amounted to more than a few hundred to a maximum of a thousand people. The vast majority of the protesters (up to two million at one time nationwide) consisted of peaceful Ukrainian citizens: bit.ly/1Tl9X7W.

Finnish Orthodox Church denies claims on support for Ukrainian Church’s autonomy

Finnish Orthodox Church denies the claim of the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko that it supports the autocephaly of the Church of Ukraine.

November 13, 2018
Disproof

No evidence given. Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Following the meeting between the president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko with the Primate of the Finnish Orthodox Church, His Eminence Archbishop Leo emphasized that "Ukrainians have the right to create their own church, as Finns had 100 years ago". A spokesperson of the Finnish Orthodox Church confirmed to the Insider that it did not deny the statements of the Ukrainian president.

The head of EU diplomacy does not care about Ukraine

The head of EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini does not care about Ukraine.

November 13, 2018
Disproof

No evidence given. Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation about the EU abandoning Ukraine.

The EU does not recognise and continues to condemn the violation of international law by Russia. Earlier this year, at the joint press point with the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman, the High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini reiterated the continued support from the European Union side, "both on the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of the country and on the reform process that the Ukrainian citizens want to see and expect from the government, and on which you have personally done so much and continue to do so much".

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