“Says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he wants America’s “sons and daughters to go die in Ukraine.”
What PolitiFact found
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not say this. Zelenskyy predicted that if Ukraine loses the war, Russia will then invade a country that’s a NATO member, forcing the U.S. to defend its allies.
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In short
Marjorie Taylor Greene (U.S. Representative) made this claim around 3 March 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 March 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has 25 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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