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DISINFO: Ukraine's first president, Leonid Kravchuk, congratulated Russia's president Putin on...

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DISINFO: Ukraine's first president, Leonid Kravchuk, congratulated Russia's president Putin on...

SUMMARY

Ukraine’s first president, Leonid Kravchuk, congratulated Russia’s president Putin on his birthday, saying that “Russia will achieve great heights thanks to President Putin”.

RESPONSE

The articles expanded and reinterpreted a recording of former president Kravchuk published by the National news Service (bit.ly/2dUgTs8), . In fact, former president Kravchuk said that President Putin now has the opportunity, with regards to his image and his support in Russia, to lift Russia to a height that it is deserving bit.ly/2d0PXdo,

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