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Fake: WSJ Reports Zelenskyy Faces Five Federal Criminal Charges in U.S

Neither the Wall Street Journal nor AMVETS have reported such information. The U.S. has no authority to prosecute a foreign leader because of sovereign immunity.

Ukraine’s army wrongly accused of staging war footage

Users are now sharing a viral video claiming to show crisis actors faking injuries for the Ukrainian army in order to "solicit" more money from allies. We debunk these claims in this edition of Truth or Fake.

Fact Check: Photo of a suited Zelenskiy at WEF summit predates Ukraine war

VERDICT: Misleading. The image was taken in January 2020, two years before Russia invaded Ukraine and Zelenskiy ditched suits for wartime attire.

Fake: Ukraine Stopped Using the Starlink System and Insulted Elon Musk — UNITED24

UNITED24 did not report such information, and neither did any other credible source.

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Fact Check: Music video BTS goes viral as Ukrainian soldiers fake combat for US funds

Claim: Ukraine was caught faking combat scenes to ask for more money from the US.

Fact: This video does not show Ukrainian soldiers creating fake combat scenes. It's a behind-the-scenes shot from a music video.

Zelenskyy met with Democrats – and Republicans – before his meeting with Trump

Claim: On Feb. 28, 2025, before a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Democrats who convinced him to reject a deal that would allow the U.S. to exploit minerals in Ukraine in exchange for U.S. support in Ukraine's war with Russia.

Rating: Mixture.

What's True: Zelenskyy did meet with Democratic U.S. senators ...
What's False: ... but that meeting also included at least three Republican senators. Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, emphatically rejected claims that the Democrats of the U.S. Senate delegation had dissuaded Zelenskyy from taking the minerals deal. Further, Zelenskyy confirmed to reporters two days after the meeting that his country was ready to accept the deal.

Unpacking claim Zelenskyy called Vance an expletive at White House meeting

[T]he audio of the available recording of the meeting was not clear enough to prove without doubt what Zelenskyy said, other than that it began with an "s" sound. In other words, it's possible the Ukrainian president said "suka" - Ukrainian for "b****" - or a term including the word, but it's also possible that he said something completely different.