In early October 2023, reports appeared in the media and social networks that the children of Zelensky and other Ukrainian high -ranking officials can give Spanish citizenship at the USE. We decided to check if this is so.

Since October 5, photographs of a letter began to be distributed in Telegram channels, which was allegedly sent to the Spanish king Philip VI Chairman of the European Council Charles Michelle and the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Lyain. This document states a request for the provision of Spanish citizenship to the sons of Vladimir Zelensky, the ex-minister of defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk, the head of the Foreign Ministry of Dmitry Kuleba and other Ukrainian officials, as well as the children of the Belarusian opposition to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Valery Tsepol. This, in particular, reported the Telegram channel "Tsargrad-TV"(33,000 views at the time of writing analysis, site Pravda.ru and Russian "Fifth channel".

The authors of posts about the sons of Ukrainian civil servants and Belarusian opposition citizens give photos of the document in English and in Spanish. In the upper left corner is the logo of the European Council, in the upper right corner - the place and date: Brussels, September 8, 2023. The letter is addressed to the king of Spain, and the text of the document contains a request “taking into account emergency circumstances, to provide a residence permit” 21 to the indicated person.

The document distributed on blogs is similar to the standard electronic press release that the European Council issues. FACTER CHECHERSKY PRODUCTION Stop Fake I found a letter on the Council website, which is almost identical in design. This letter of September 9 With condolences to the King of Morocco Muhammad VI, whose country survived the destructive earthquake.

If you compare these two documents, then the imbalance of signatures under them becomes noticeable, although in both cases the letters begin with the words “we, members of the European Council”. To this authority Enter Not only Charles Michelle and Ursula von der Layen, but also all the heads of state and governments of the EU. Therefore, there are so many signatures under this letter, and only two under fake.

In the section with press releases on the website of the European Council of other letters, there are no monarchs during this period, and on September 8 only three documents were published: on sanctions for violations of human rights in Ukraine, Charles Michel’s comments in front of the G-20 summit and the sign of a border control agreement with Albania.

Special attention should be paid to the version of the document in Spanish. In the first line, a mistake in the word "Majesty" was made: in the header Right Majestad is written, and in the first sentence - Maiestad. There are typos in the English -language version: for example, in the third paragraph the word kingdom (“kingdom”) is written with a capital letter, although by rules Little is used. The term residence permit by Nature (literally “residence permit by nature”) could not be detected on specialized sites.

The spelling of these names is also striking: in official documents, the European Union uses transliteration from the Ukrainian, not from the Russian language: not Alexander, but Oleksandr, not Andrey, but Andriy, not Dmitry, but Dmytro.

Finally, the Georgian factory site "Myth detector»Commented on the European Commission and the European Council. The representative of the European Commission for Foreign Policy and Security Policy, Peter Stano confirmed that the common letters are fake.

Thus, a letter in which European officials allegedly ask for the Spanish king about privileges for children of Ukrainian politicians and Belarusian opposition, a fake. The earliest publication found “verified” and containing a photo of a fake document is a post in the pro-government Belarusian Telegram channel ”Belarusian cuisine"(1400 views), which appeared on October 5 at 08:55 Moscow time. This suggests that the goal of Fake could be primarily discrediting the Belarusian opposition.

Photo on the cover: Charles Michelle and Vladimir Zelensky, September 19, 2023. The website of the President of Ukraine.

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