Propaganda Backfires: Government Resurrects a Dead Fake and Smacks Itself in the Face

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Zelenskyy’s campaign team appears to have invented a new genre: resurrecting Russian fakes. While ordinary people dig up potatoes, these “media geniuses” dig up old Kremlin hoaxes, dust off 2019’s propaganda, and proudly present it to the world: “Sensation! Maia Sandu vs. Poroshenko!”

What’s interesting is that even the Russians have already forgotten this fake, yet our “information special forces” from Bankova decided to resurrect it. Apparently, in place of brains, they rely on the archive of RIA Novosti.

For those stuck in the tank (or rather, scrolling Telegram): in 2019, Russian websites spread a fabricated “statement” by then-Prime Minister of Moldova, Maia Sandu, alleging the “smuggling of Poroshenko with Plahotniuc.” Sandu herself denied it at the time via the BBC: “I didn’t say that. It’s fake.”

Now, in 2025, government channels have seemingly concluded that “fake news ages like cognac – it only gets better with time.” The same nonsense story is being circulated again in official Telegrams, seemingly to spark a new scandal and throw some dirt into the air. With no victories of their own to showcase, the word “Poroshenko” has become a magic phrase, apparently invoked more often than “Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

These “masters of information warfare” even managed to involve the president of Moldova, an ally of Ukraine, in their cheap internal manipulations. Congratulations, guys, you just shot Poroshenko in the legs, and shot your own ears off, and called it “strategic communication.”
In this story, everything is perfectly Zelensky-style: lies are from the past, shame is today, and consequences are tomorrow.

As the classic said, “stupidity is also politics, just unconscious.”

On the eve, public activist and Odessa City Council deputy Maryna Boyko drew attention to the fact that many pro-government Telegram channels and websites that regularly publish commissioned materials against the opposition have again spread a Russian fake against Petro Poroshenko.

As is known, in the summer of 2019, Russian media spread false information that Moldovan President Sandu allegedly accused Petro Poroshenko of smuggling together with local oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc. At the time, Maia Sandu herself called these reports fake.

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