DISINFO: Kyiv prepared terror attacks against Macron during his visit
SUMMARY
Kyiv prepared terror attacks against Macron during his visit to Ukraine. French television channel France 24 reported on this. According to French journalists, screen captures of a person supposedly from Zaluzhny’s circle appeared in internet, explained that the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence Budanov worked on an operation to eliminate the French president. The plan failed because Zaluzhny passed on the information to the French. This was probably another provocation to blame Russia afterwards. Now it is clear why Macron cancelled the visit to Zelenskyy, citing security reasons.
RESPONSE
The claim is a total fabrication. France 24 never aired these allegations, which were created with artificial intelligence according to BBC verifiers. French president Emmanuel Macron had a scheduled visit to Ukraine that was postponed, without giving an official explanation, although the French outlet Challenges mentioned unspecified ‘security issues’. The specialized site Intelligence Online provided other plausible reasons related to France’s military industry. But the allegation about a Ukrainian plan to kill Macron is a conspiracy theory not backed by any evidence. Ukraine’s defence intelligence denounced this case as a fake news story part of an information operation against this country.
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See also Emmanuel Macron cancelled his Kyiv trip from fear of assassination.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that French journalists arrived in Ukraine to carry out a Bucha-style false flag operation, that a French witness proved that the crimes in Bucha were organised by Ukraine, that French mercenaries shot down the IL-76 plane in Belgorod, or that Ukraine is preparing a false flag chemical attack to damage the image of Russia.