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Description of the fake LIE
Ukraine cannot create its own ballistic missile in a few months, and Zelenskyy’s statement at the defence industry forum, regarding its already successful tests, looks anecdotal because other countries spend years creating this type of missile. This statement was reproduced by the Russian media.
Refutation TRUTH
It is really impossible to create a ballistic missile “in a few months”, as the fake makers wrote. But Ukraine has been working on the creation of the Sapsan ballistic missile since 2006. In 2013, when Yanukovych was the president of Ukraine and Pavlo Lebedyev was the defence minister, the project has been stopped. However, in 2016, the Sapsan project was restored under the name Hrim-2.
Therefore, the current period of work on the Ukrainian ballistic missile has been going on for eight years, not “several months”.
The Kremlin’s propaganda uses “substitution of thesis”, a traditional manipulative technique, refuting one false piece of information to promote another false one.
The spread of this fake is part of a special information operation to discredit Ukraine, spreading a narrative about a “failed state” that allegedly “does not have the resources to create high-tech products.”
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