Screenshots of an allegedly published article in the online edition of the Daily Mail are being circulated online, which has the following title: “Why Ukraine’s President wants to be more Charlie Chaplin than Churchill”. Russian propagandists, for their part, say that it is with this title that the Daily Mail is presenting Simon Schuster’s book about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

The Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council checked this information. As it turned out, the article with that title is not available on the official website of the online newspaper. In addition, the Center discovered a fake news aggregator, where the article was posted on behalf of the Daily Mail.

By spreading “news” or “articles” on behalf of reputable foreign publications, Russian propaganda is trying to make its fakes more believable. This is one of the tactics of Russian propaganda. Previously, we have analyzed such artificially created materials more than once.