Kremlin media and some Telegram channels presented the president’s remarks as a “request to Moscow to stop the strikes”, but this is a distortion.

In a Telegram post on 5 September, Zelenskyy described the consequences of massive attacks on energy infrastructure and called for stronger defense and increased diplomatic pressure on the aggressor – not for an appeal or plea to Russia. The fake framing of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s words was exposed by StopFake fact-checkers.

On Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Telegram channel, it stated: “More protection is needed, faster implementation of all defense agreements, especially on air defense, to deprive this air terror of any meaning. A unilateral ceasefire in the sky is possible, and it is precisely this that could open the path to real diplomacy. America and Europe must act to force Putin to stop”.