In mid-February 2025, Russian Telegram channels reported that the Ukrainian authorities were going to supply chicken eggs to the American market to continue military and financial support from Washington. We checked the reliability of such posts.
Publications with headings like “Ukraine is ready to send its eggs to the United States” widely spread over the network on February 16. Judging by these reports, the Ukrainian authorities proposed an unusual idea to American partners: they cover the shortage of chicken eggs that appeared in the United States, and those, in turn, maintain financial and military assistance programs. The Washington Post was indicated as the source of this information.
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As early as the fall of 2024, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky Offered Western partners continue to support the country, then to jointly develop Ukrainian natural resources. In early February 2025, US President Donald Trump declaredthat is interested in such a deal. It was reported that the agreement could be signed at the Munich Security Conference, which took place on February 14-16. However, Zelensky Refused To do this, since the document did not contain security guarantees for Ukraine (but, as later found out Media, suggested extremely unprofitable conditions for Kyiv). After that, the relationship between the two leaders is noticeable Concludedbut February 25 Financial Times And Other publications They reported that the countries nevertheless agreed on the terms of the transaction. Expectedthat it will be approved on February 28.
As the above-mentioned Telegram channels in the United States in recent months reported correctly Warm shortage of chicken eggs. First of all, experts explain, it is caused by an epidemic of bird flu, because of which in December-January in the country Killed more than 41 million chickens. Egg prices reached a record level, and in some regions they almost disappeared from the shelves of stores. Against this background, American companies increased Import from Turkey - as CNN writes, the only country where the United States purchases eggs.
In viral publications about an unusual Ukrainian initiative, it is not indicated in which article The Washington Post is stated. Apparently, this refers to the publication on February 15 under the heading "Ukraine rejected the initial request of Trump for half its mineral wealth". It is based on the words of Ukrainian officials who communicated with journalists on the terms of anonymity. Talking about a conversation with one of them, the newspaper writes: “A senior Ukrainian official joked that the country's leadership was ready to consider almost any measures to maintain American assistance, including, as the official said, the mass supply of Ukrainian eggs. In the country in abundance, and leadership is known about sharply rising prices in the United States. ”
In other words, The Washington Post emphasized the fruits of the statement, and the position of the author of these words remains unknown outside the newspaper. At the same time, publicly Ukrainian authorities did not make official statements about the export of eggs in the United States in exchange for weapons. Nevertheless, the joke of an unnamed official became the basis for further manipulations.
The Washington Post was published on February 15 at about 19:30 Moscow time, and several hours later, messages about the exchange of Ukrainian eggs for American military assistance began to spread in Telegram. The earliest is such publication, which was found “verified”, appeared on February 16 at 01:36 in the channel “RIA Novosti: USA” (53,000 views), while its authors noted the playful nature of the statement. However, after 13 minutes appeared The post in the War Zone (13,000) channel, where this important detail was ignored. Further, the news dispersed precisely in such a distorted form. It should be noted that if the proxual telegram channels, apparently, intentionally omitted the ironic phrase, then the media, as a rule, nevertheless pointed to this, but only at the very end of their notes with manipulative headlines.
However, on this the story of the alleged supply of Ukrainian eggs in the United States did not end. On February 19, other posts appeared: supposedly the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada and a member of the Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy Dmitry Solomchuk proposed to exchange eggs for Patriot air defense systems. Telegram channels wrote about this "Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring"(494 000),"Truthfulness"(198,000),"Ukraine.ru"(124 000) and others.
The evidence provides a 30-second excerpt from the interview of Solomchuk, which he gave Ukrainian portal "Novini.Live" on February 18. Then the deputy stated that if the United States needs help, Ukrainian farmers will definitely respond and send them eggs, and added: "In exchange for" Patriots ", our hens would begin to rush two to three times faster." However, both by the reaction of the host, and by the intonations of the politician, it is noticeable that he is ironic. Moreover, half a minute before the fragment, which is published by Telegram channels. sets Solomchuk is the following question: “Some on the Web now joke that we can exchange eggs for Patriot. So what are the chances that Ukrainian eggs will see the American market? " So this time, the pro -Kremlin media fell silent about the comic nature of the statement that the representative of the Ukrainian authorities made.
Thus, there is no evidence that Ukraine has officially proposed exporting eggs in exchange for military assistance from the United States. Such publications are based on a joke of an anonymous Ukrainian official from his commentary The Washington Post, which subsequently spread in pro -Komorlev sources as a real initiative.
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