“Classified documents from Ukraine “confirm without a shadow of a doubt” that the Ukraine government was “covertly preparing an offensive operation against Donbas, scheduled for March 2022.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 9 Mar 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The document isn’t classified, and there are no direct statements in it about an attack on the Donbas. It makes references to a training camp on the opposite side of the country.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 9 March 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 March 2022, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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