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Fake Zelenskyi wants to “fix Ukraine's demographic problems” with “mass migration”, CNN reports

Pages spreading pro-Russian rhetoric on social networks distributed a screenshot of a “tweet” from the American media CNN. It allegedly quoted the words of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi. Like, he said that Ukraine wants to use “mass migration” to “solve the demographic problems” in the country. According to the “tweet”, Zelenskyi argued that Ukraine will become a “diverse and multicultural nation that will become a model for the rest of Europe”. It's fake.

Reuters fact-checkers drew attention to it. They found out that CNN did not have such a publication either on its website or on its Twitter account. They also found the original image of the “tweet” from a meme site. Moreover, the agency’s specialists also could not find Zelenskyi’s relevant quotes. Presidential Speaker Serhii Nikiforov did not respond to Reuters' inquiry about the comments.

Thus, propagandists want to force Ukrainians to negotiate through reports of “worsening problems” inside Ukraine due to the war. They say that everything is bad in Ukraine, and therefore it is necessary to stop the war on their terms. In addition, by using such messages, they want to present multiculturalism and diversity as a negative phenomenon. This coincides with the message about a “spiritual Europe” that wants to “pull Ukraine” into its “trap”. However, a question of this kind is an internal affair of Ukraine.

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