Russian propaganda Telegram channels are distributing a video story allegedly created by the German WELT, which says that in the city of Dresden (Germany), the police allegedly found more than 400 gold dental crowns in the house of a morgue attendant, a Ukrainian refugee Mykyta Tereshchuk. He allegedly took them out of the mouths of corpses in the Dresden morgue. In turn, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Oleksii  Makieiev, allegedly publicly apologized for his compatriot and promised to send him to the front.

In fact, this information is not true. WELT did not create or distribute such a video story,  it cannot be found either on their official website or on their social media pages. In addition, the style of WELT videos differs from the style of the story distributed by propagandists. One can verify this by watching any video of this format on the WELT Instagram page. Also, WELT creates all such videos in German, not English, as in the fake version.

The “news” about the alleged discovery of “more than 400 gold dental crowns” on a Ukrainian refugee in Germany was not disseminated by any other reliable Western or Ukrainian media.

In the end, there is no information on the forgiveness of the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makieiev, and his promises to “send to the front” a Ukrainian refugee, because this supposedly “outrageous case” is a primitive fake.

With this disinformation, propagandists are trying to discredit Ukrainian refugees in the eyes of citizens of those countries that have accepted Ukrainians. Thus, with this specific case, Russian propaganda wants to show the “true nature” of Ukrainians, resorting to the typical tactics of Russian propaganda of “thoughts of the enemy”.

Earlier, we analyzed a Russian fake about a refugee from Ukraine shooting at a church icon in Zurich.