In early August 2023, a statement by the head of European diplomacy spread on the network, who allegedly turned to the African states with a request to abandon the Russian grain, making a choice between hunger and slavery. We decided to check if such an official said.
It was argued that the Supreme EU representative for foreign affairs and security policy Josep Borrel in contacting African countries said: “Having accepted the free Russian grain, you refuse independence. They are trying to revive slavery on free earth, kneel for you. You have a choice between hunger and human dignity. ” The news about this was distributed by many popular Telegram channels, including "NE.SAHAR"(308,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Bullet"(147 000),"Army 🅉 / News"(136 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(122 000) and"Ostashko! Important"(119 000).
The news of the statement of the fighter appeared against the backdrop of the calls of the world community to Russia to resume a grain deal. July 17 Russia I went out From the "Black Sea initiative", which provided for the unhindered export of grain from three Ukrainian ports. The next day, the Russian army began strike According to the Ukrainian port infrastructure, including grain storages. EU, USA and UK condemned the actions of Moscow, and the UN released statement, in which she recalled that Russia endanates the poorest countries in need of food.
On July 27-28, the Russia-Africa summit was also dedicated to food security in St. Petersburg. During the performance at the plenary session of the event, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared: “Russia will always be a responsible international supplier of agricultural goods. We continue to support the most needing countries and regions, we will supply our grain and other food, including at the end of the cost, as well as within the framework of the UN food program. Yesterday, as you know, we announced that in the next three to four months we will put 25-50 thousand tons of grain to six African countries for free. ” After that, the news appeared about the call of the fighter to the countries of Africa to starve for the sake of freedom.
There is no such statement on the site European External Relations Servicenor in blog official on this site, nor in Twitter-Acount of the fighter. He did not talk about this in an interview. On the contrary, Borrel declaredthat the EU does not intend to demand from the African countries to choose a side in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. There are no traces of this news in the English -language media.
The earliest mention of the statement that we managed to find "verified" is a post in the Telegram channel "But my Yandex is a wallet", Published on August 4 at 9:41 pm Moscow time. Records in this channel are satirical in nature (which is directly stated in the description channel) and often become the original source for propaganda Telegram channels, which, in turn, serve the “news” as real ones. For example, in February it dispersed widely Quote from the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Layen The fact that she allegedly does not believe in the involvement of the White House in the explosions on the "northern stream" due to the "impeccable reputation" of the United States. This is also originally comic news in the same channel.
Two days after the publication of the news about the fighter in the Telegram channel “But my Yandex Kid” appeared Another record - This time with the screenshots of posts that mentioned the fictional quote of the European official, and comment: “Eat on health.”
Thus, the news that Borrel allegedly urged African countries to abandon Russian grain and starve for independence was originally satirical.
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