In January 2025, the news appeared on social networks that the Parliamentation from Denmark Karsten Hyonge turned to Russia with a request to prevent Greenland’s seizure by the United States. We checked the reliability of such publications.

1On January 0, Russian-speaking Telegram channels began to distribute the screenshot of the post, which was allegedly published on Facebook by the Folketing (Parliament of Denmark) Karsten Hyong. In this text, written in a dedication, it was said: “In a situation of extreme escalation and tension, we need to go to extreme measures and seek help from Russia to solve this problem. I am sure that our request will be heard because Russia will not allow Greenland to become part of the United States. For Russia, it is as disadvantageous as for us. ” Some Russian media wrote about this, in particular, Lenta.ru, "Vesti.ru" And "Arguments and facts", As well as numerous Telegram channels, for example"Pozdnyakov 3.0"(413,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Solovyov"(265 000),"Russia now • News"(238,000),"Uncle Glory"(200,000),"Ostashko! Important"(163,000),"Pool N3"(138 000) and others.

At the end of December 2024, the elected US President Donald Trump declaredThat for Washington the possession and control of Greenland is an absolute need. He is even later did not rule outthat the island belonging to Denmark will be captured by force. January 7 to Greenland I visited The son of Trump - as he said, on a private visit. Against this background of Denmark Increased expenses To the defense of the island, the authorities of the kingdom announced the unity of their lands, and the Prime Minister of Greenland (the island of self-governing territory) Muta Egeda said: "We are not sold and will never be sold."

Deputy Karsten Hyongge really exists: In the parliament of Denmark, he represents the opposition socialist people's party. He repeatedly spoke on the status of Greenland and proposed autonomy to proclaim independence and then an alliance with Denmark, "based on equality and democracy." Hyunge commented on the recent threats from Trump: in Interview BBC He said that Greenland needs to decide how much it appreciates independence, and in accordance with this to decide whether it is permissible to break up the connection with Denmark and turn to the United States. He did not say a word about Russia. An article by the BBC with the comments of the deputy was released on January 10, on the same day, when the screenshot of his record on Facebook began to spread in social networks.

IN social networks Hyunge is not such a post. However, many who distributed the picture of Telegram channels claimed that the deputy deleted his record after a while: One wrote about two hours other - About a few hours. The first version is definitely not true: in the picture (even if it is assumed that this is really a screenshot of a real record) shows that the post was available at least seven hours.

But it is unlikely that the scandalous post of a well -known Danish politician (Hyonga has been sitting in the local parliament for more than 13 years) remained unnoticed for so long. Not a single Danish media wrote about him, and the only accessible image is the same cut screenshot.

Karesten Hyunge himself January 14 wrote In the social network X that the screenshot spread on the Internet is a fake. “The chances that I will ask Russia about any support is no more than that of Snowball in hell,” the statement said. It is worth noting that in 2022, the deputy for several months as a photo of the cover of his profile on Facebook Used Landscape of flowers of the Ukrainian flag, and subsequently it Replaced Two photos Politics with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.

Following this, I considered it necessary perform And the socialist folk party: “Karsten Hyongge never wrote or pronounced the words that they quote in social networks. The post was fabricated by unknown people who took the photo from the page of Karsten Hyongge on Facebook and inserted an extraneous text there. ”

The earliest record of the alleged appeal of the Danish deputy to Russia, which was found “verified”, appeared on January 10 at 18:22 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “Sheikh Tamir”(143,000 views), on January 15 the post was deleted. "Checked" more than once It wrote About this channel as the primary source of numerous fakes, for the most part dedicated to Ukraine.

Thus, the screenshot of the post of Danish deputy, who allegedly asked for help from Russia to protect Greenland, is Fake. It was not possible to find any traces of such a record, and the distribution of the picture began with the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel, which has repeatedly published misinformation.

In parallel with this, a Russian trace was found in another story related to Greenland. Trump is not the first time talking about his plans to get a strategically important island in the Arctic - about such intentions he declared At the end of 2019. It is possible that the initiator was the Senator from Arkansas Tom Cotton, who touched this topic in a conversation with the US president in the same year. Cotton, in turn, referred to a letter signed by the Greenland Foreign Minister Ana Lone Bagger. In this letter, she allegedly offered the United States to buy an island. Then the newspaper Politiken She reported that this was a fake, and the experts surveyed suggested that Russia could be behind its creation. Now, four years later, Danish intelligence came to the same conclusion, the results of the investigation of which Published Bild.

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