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Fake Zelensky refused to use the letters V and Z in his name.

Fake that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky refused to use two letters in the Latin transliteration of his name is spreading on the network. As proof of this fact, they add a cover of TIME magazine, in which the letter M looks like horns over a picture of the president, which was placed on the cover. Such posts add that these "horns" must be pointing to something. In fact, as Project Maldita writes, TIME magazine did not publish an issue with such a cover, and the media's editorial staff denies that they issued such an issue.

"The cover also has a title, from which it allegedly becomes clear that Vladimir Zelenski refused to use the letters V and Z in his first and last name, and the media is allegedly looking for an alternative to these letters. This fake started spreading after Lithuania, Latvia and Moldova banned using the image of letter Z in public places, because Russians use it to mark their military equipment and it is used as an element of military propaganda", fact checkers write. Read more

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