Such messages are spread by the Russian propaganda media. In their reports, referring to the words of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the propagandists claim that NATO plans to continue firing in Ukraine and will not stop it. However, this is not true. In fact, NATO cannot cease fire because the Alliance troops are not fighting in Ukraine. Indeed, the NATO Secretary regularly stated and claimed that the Alliance is not a party to the conflict in the Russian-Ukrainian war, and therefore cannot cease fire in Ukraine.

As the StopFake fact checkers write, to create a fake the propagandists used fragments from the speech of the NATO Secretary General at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27). However, Stoslenberg at the conference said that the war must be ended and called the best and easiest way for Putin to do this: "to respect the sovereignty of the neighbor - Ukraine".

However, Russia needs such fakes in order to once again nourish the narrative that Russia is actually at war not with Ukraine, but with Western countries, NATO, etc. This fake also nourishes the narrative about the so-called Western governance of Ukraine. Thus, Russia once again wants to stake out the opinion that Ukraine and the current local authorities are not subject, and all decisions, including very important ones — on a ceasefire, are made at the direction of Western curators.