“Russian President Vladimir Putin called Pakistan a land just used as a cemetery for Pakistanis”
Social media posts
Claim dated 3 Apr 2022.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
Vladimir Putin did not make any such statement about Pakistan. When a similar quote with the text, “Africa is just a cemetery of Africans”, was attributed to Putin in 2018, the Ministry of Ghana through a Facebook post clarified that the message was fake
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 3 April 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 6 April 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
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