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DISINFO: President Petro Poroshenko announced he is the reincarnation of Ivan...

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Stepan Bandera Ivan Mazepa Petro Poroshenko

DISINFO: President Petro Poroshenko announced he is the reincarnation of Ivan...

SUMMARY

President Petro Poroshenko announced he is the reincarnation of Ivan Mazepa (Cossack Hetman who died in 1709) and Stepan Bandera (controversial Ukrainian political activist who died in 1959).

RESPONSE

The story is a fake - which was ackonwledged later even by Vladimir Solovyov, a popular TV-anchor and pro-Kremlin mouthpiece, who promoted the story earlier: bit.ly/202lwCg, // bit.ly/1OA3j7K,

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