Propaganda Telegram channels have spread information that on November 21, 2024, former MP Mustafa Nayem was allegedly arrested in the Afghan province of Nangarhar for “attempting to illegally cross the border”. The authors of the corresponding messages claimed that he could be imprisoned, extradited to Russia, or even executed. The propagandists also assumed that the purpose of Mustafa Nayem's visit to Afghanistan was either intelligence activities or drug trafficking.

In fact, this information is not true. This is written in the StopFake project. The original source of the “news” about the detention of Mustafa Nayem was the pro-Russian Telegram channel “Sheikh Tamir”, the leading propagandist Maksym Shykhaliev. The author of the channel did not provide a single reliable source of this information, referring to abstract “sources in the Taliban”. Moreover, he subsequently deleted the corresponding publication.

StopFake journalists managed to contact Mustafa Nayem in a messenger. The former MP denied the news, calling it “nonsense” and explaining that he had not left anywhere and was currently in Kyiv.

It is noteworthy that this disinformation appeared on pro-Russian resources on the day of the eleventh anniversary of the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity - it was Mustafa Nayem's message on the X social network that became one of the catalysts for the beginning of the protests. In their publications, propagandists called Mustafa Nayem the “godfather” and “initiator” of Euromaidan. Of course, Russian propaganda is trying to discredit the Revolution of Dignity and the individuals associated with it with similar fakes.

Earlier we analyzed the Russian manipulation that vegetable prices in Ukraine rose due to the Revolution of Dignity.