Russian media and pro-Kremlin telegram channels reported that "US Congressman" Paul Massaro allegedly wrote on Twitter that "Russia must be destroyed." This fake began to be used by Russian so-called "experts" for manipulation, such as "US politicians hatched plans" to divide "Russia" through a "native regime" in Kyiv and extremists inside the country "or" the congressman published his post during the severe shelling of Donetsk by scientists in the United States by Ukrainian nationalists. "