Russian disinformation falsely claims Coalition of the Willing plans to 'occupy' Ukraine

Published connected 15/09/2025 - 12:06 GMT+2 •Updated 12:11

A Kremlin-aligned disinformation cognition is falsely accusing Ukraine's allies of plotting to disagreement the war-torn country's territory betwixt them successful the lawsuit of a bid woody with Russia.

The claims — which Euronews' verification and fact-checking squad detected connected Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok and X — are purportedly based connected a disclosure of confidential French subject documents by salient Russian hacking radical Killnet.

The disinformation claims that those leaked documents uncover a concealed program to disagreement the territory and earthy resources of Ukraine betwixt 4 allies — France, the UK, Poland and Romania — and to deploy arsenic galore arsenic 50,000 peacekeeping troops.

A representation allegedly detailing the program to "divide Ukraine into zones of influence" is besides circulating.

But a person look astatine the representation shows respective grammatical and spelling errors which, according to a caller French authorities X relationship which debunks mendacious claims, show that the representation is not the enactment of the French military.

For example, Belarus is incorrectly translated into French arsenic "Biélarus" alternatively than "Biélorussie".

The sanction of erstwhile French General Thierry Burkhard is besides misspelt.

French debunkers person besides pointed retired that the rubric of the representation omits the French nonfiction 'la', which they accidental is simply a mistake typically made by Russian autochthonal speakers.

The representation besides shows Crimea, annexed by Russia successful 2014, arsenic an integral portion of Russia's territory, portion France and Western allies see the territory to beryllium a Ukrainian territory nether Russia control.

Despite these errors exposing the representation arsenic disinformation, EuroVerify detected the representation and accompanying mendacious claims connected respective Kremlin-aligned media outlets.

The aforesaid claims person besides been re-hashed into an AI-generated video resembling a quality report.

According to unfastened root quality experts, the representation was archetypal shared connected Telegram relationship Mash connected 9 September.

Mash is simply a Russian media known for being adjacent to the Kremlin and 1 of the astir fashionable Russian-language channels connected the platform.

It's known for spreading mendacious accusation aimed astatine undermining Ukraine and its allies. It's believed to beryllium down erstwhile mendacious allegations that Kyiv was selling the organs of deceased soldiers connected the achromatic market, arsenic good arsenic unfounded claims Ukraine had mislaid arsenic galore arsenic 1.7 cardinal equipped forces, previously debunked by Euroverify.

While alleged assemblage notes contradicting the mendacious claims person present been added to definite posts connected X, the claims are inactive circulating without corrections connected different platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.