“Ethnic Russians face “genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime.”
What PolitiFact found
No evidence supports this claim. Civilian deaths in the conflict region have plummeted from over 2,000 in 2014 to less than 20 in 2021.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Vladimir Putin (President of Russia) made this claim around 24 February 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 February 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Vladimir Putin has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- bloomberg.comhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/full-transcript-vladimir-putin-s-telev…
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