Such information was disseminated in social networks, in particular, on telegram channels broadcasting pro-Kremlin rhetoric. The reports say that the United States allegedly “allowed Ukraine to strike at new regions of Russia”. According to the authors of the message, this was stated by the White House coordinator for strategic communications, John Kirby. It is not true.

The fact-checkers of the StopFake project investigated the case and found out what a statement from John Kirby was. White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby, in response to Russian President Volodymyr Putin's recent statement that “Western intelligence agencies” are involved in so-called “terrorist attacks” in Russia, said that the US does not “enable nor encourage" Ukrainians to strike outside the country.