Pro-government Telegram channels have once again spread a Russian fake against Poroshenko.

A number of pro-government Telegram channels and websites that regularly publish commissioned materials against the opposition have once again spread a Russian fake against Petro Poroshenko.

This was written on Facebook by public activist and Odessa City Council member Marina Boyko.

As is well known, in the summer of 2019, Russian media reported that Moldovan President Sandu allegedly accused Petro Poroshenko of smuggling along with local oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc.

Maia Sandu herself called such reports fake.

“Now the government’s propaganda channels are trying to revive an old fake from 2019, claiming that Maia Sandu allegedly accused the Ukrainian government and Poroshenko of criminal schemes with Plahotniuc. But interestingly, neither in 2019 nor later did Ms. Sandu make such statements, nor did she accuse Petro Poroshenko of anything. The Politico article from that time makes no direct reference to these claims. But BBC News quotes the president’s own denial: “Maia Sandu calls such reports fake. “That’s not true. I said that at various times in Chisinau, Tiraspol, and Kyiv there were people—I didn’t say at what level—who made money from the conflict in Transnistria. I didn’t talk about Mr. Poroshenko or anyone else,” Maryna Boyko quotes.

“I don’t understand why our international partners should be drawn into these dirty manipulations of Ukrainian domestic politics,” writes the Odessa MP.