On October 10, information spread on pro-Kremlin telegram channels that Hamas terrorists had acquired weapons from Ukraine, provided by Western partners. It seems that even before the Black Sea grain agreement, merchant ships took some of the weapons from Ukraine through Lebanon to Palestine. They say, “after the publication of information in the Western media about the Ukrainian trace of Palestinian weapons, mass purges began in Mukachevo”. Russian propaganda notes that officials, military personnel and diplomats were detained and a diplomatic scandal is brewing. It's fake.

The case was studied by the fact-checkers of the Center for Strategic Communications. A search was indeed carried out in the Mukachevo City Council, but it was related to the transfer of part of the city’s central sports complex to private ownership. This was officially confirmed by the SBU and NABU. The searches are not related to the transfer of Western weapons to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.

Moreover, the “Western media” to which Russian propaganda refers did not write about the “Mukachevo trace of Palestinian weapons”. And the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) said that all this was “fabrication and lies”.

Russian propagandists are trying to use the war between Israel and Hamas to discredit Ukraine. They say that Ukrainians resell weapons provided by Western partners on the black market, and they fall into the hands of terrorists. Thus, Russian propaganda seeks to reduce Western assistance. Previously, we refuted the fake that Ukraine is selling weapons to Hamas.