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Photo: Alexandra_Koch Pixabay The post is spreading disinformation that the Russian military actions on the territory of Ukraine, which took place on 24 February completely unprovoked, are over and that, allegedly, Russia was the winner.…

Citizens of North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Albania, were evacuated from Israel with a “Air Serbia” plane. Photo: Screenshot from a video NATO is not involved in the evacuation of citizens of three member states, including…

Photo: Screenshot of a part of the post Bearing in mind that NATO is not at war with Russia and is not sending soldiers to the front in Ukraine, as well as that the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia participates only in NATO and EU…

Photo: screenshot from the video in the post The fact that Putin sent a request for NATO not to expand - which was rejected - and such a draft agreement was never signed by NATO, does not shift the military responsibility onto NATO.…

From the meeting between Zelenskyy and Stoltenberg in Kyiv in April 2023 Photo: president.gov.ua Russia is not at war with NATO, hence it cannot be concluded that Russia defeated NATO. NATO condemns Russia’s brutal and unprovoked…

Photo: pixabay.com Two theses in this post - the one on ”the satanic NATO” and that on “the pedophile EU” - look too much alike to the disinformation propaganda spread by the Kremlin about the West, in the attempt to justify Russia’s…

Bush-Gorbachev, Helsinki 1990. Photo: Susan Biddle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons There is no treaty signed by the US, Europe, and Russia specifying that NATO will not enlarge. The idea of NATO expansion beyond Germany was not on…

Photo: nato.int Unlike the claim in the post, NATO is not sending weapons directly to Ukraine. NATO member-states individually are sending weapons and aid, together with other countries that are not NATO members, and that is clearly…

Vladimir Putin, 21.02.2023 Photo: kremlin.ru Opposed to the claims in the post we are fact-checking, Putin is the one who made a decision - completely unprovoked - to attack the territorial integrity of a sovereign country. In addition,…

Photo: Printscreen from the video It is not true that NATO is instigating war and that its goal is to fight Russia at the expense of Ukrainian citizens. Such a narrative is part of the Russian propaganda that wants to present Ukraine as a…

30 years jubilee of the Army – central event, August 2022 Photo: mod.gov.mk The post is spreading disinformation that Macedonian troops will be deployed to fight against the Russian Armed Forces in Pridnestrovye. The claim that our…

In the video with the post, analyst Gilbert Doctorow does not present a single source of evidence for his claim that during a missile attack of Russia, NATO generals hiding in a bunker in Ukraine were killed. His only attribution is the…

A series of anti-NATO narratives related to the Russian military aggression of Ukraine exist online in order to create justification for the aggression by blaming the Alliance for the military actions. Arguments for five such narratives…

The post disinforms that NATO is pushing Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian. This narrative undermines thousands of soldiers in Ukraine, including patriotic defence actions carried out to defend themselves from Russian aggression. It is…

We assess the post fact-checked as untrue. It is not true to claim that the earthquake was a geologically produced attack, that the diplomats were withdrawn due to the earthquake and that Turkey decided to leave NATO. As far as the false…

Ukraine and Russia are not “mislead by the West to go to war at their own peril”, as the post claims, but Ukraine as a sovereign state, recognized member of the UN is a victim of the aggression of neighbouring Russia for officially annexing…

Photograph of a small girl close to her killed mother from the film ”Fortress of War” is being shared on several posts on Facebook and Twitter, related to the NATO-bombing of former Yugoslavia. The post falsely claims that the photograph…

The latest strain on the relations between North Macedonia and Bulgaria and the (in)visible Russian touch in the process of escalation of relations proved to be a dominant tendency of the disinformation spreading in the Macedonian (but also…