In March 2025, Telegram channels reported that the leaders of Italy and Argentina, as a sign of solidarity with the US President, erased all their photos with Vladimir Zelensky. We have verified the accuracy of this story.
Javier Miley
Information about the removal of photographs with the President of Ukraine from all Miley’s pages on social networks appeared on March 1. It is reported that he removed all joint photographs with Zelensky after his argument in the Oval Office with Donald Trump - it was this episode that allegedly caused the indignation of the Argentine president.
Posts on this topic were published by Telegram channels “Anatoly Shariy"(996,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Luka Ebkov"(364,000), "Solovyov"(270,000), "Ne.Caxap"(260,000), "KB» (237,000), as well as RBC, Lenta.ru, "Sight» and other media. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry also commented on the news Maria Zakharova.
Argentina's eccentric president has never hidden his admiration for Donald Trump. In January, Miley was invited to the inauguration of the US President, and in February he visited on an official visit to the White House. At the same time, Javier Miley more than once stated about his unlimited support for Ukraine. However, Argentina’s position towards Ukraine has recently undergone some changes: within the framework of the UN General Assembly, the South American country didn't support resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Most media outlets and Telegram channels that published news about the deletion of photographs indicate the Argentine publication RTN as the primary source. Apparently, we are talking about a note entitled “Tras el cruce con Trump, Milei ordenó borrar sus fotos con Zelenski“ (“After a clash with Trump, Miley ordered the removal of his photographs with Zelensky” - Spanish).
The note, published on March 4, refers to what happened on February 28 conflict in the White House between Trump and Zelensky. The author explains that, faced with a sharp decline in reserves, Miley is seeking to avoid complications in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund. Against this background, he allegedly ordered the severance of diplomatic ties with Ukraine, and the Argentine Foreign Ministry explained that the events in the White House became a turning point in relations between the two countries. According to the author of the publication, Milei decided to fully support Trump’s strategy and delete all his photographs with Zelensky and posts dedicated to him from the social network X. The article emphasizes that the instruction applies only to the politician’s personal account (@JMilei), but the authors of the viral publications ignored this detail. Besides, on the official website The Argentine Foreign Ministry said nothing about the turning point in relations with Ukraine, much less about the intention to sever diplomatic relations.
RTN and other sources that disseminated the information do not contain links to the supposedly deleted posts, their screenshots, or even descriptions, so it is impossible to verify their presence or absence. At the time of writing this analysis in personal account Mileya in X, indeed, there is not a single photo with Zelensky, but similar photographs remained in snippets some publications about the meetings of the two presidents. At the same time, Miley practically does not post original tweets on this page, almost all content there are reposts of other people's publications.
In the politician’s accounts on other social networks, his photographs with Zelensky are still available - the most recent group photo was taken on January 22 in Davos, during the last meetings two presidents. It is published as in Miley's personal profiles Instagram And Facebook, and on the official pages of the President of Argentina in X, Instagram And Facebook. The photo is signed with the words: “Long live freedom!” In addition to this photo, on Miley’s social networks you can also find other photo And video with his Ukrainian colleague.
That is, the only page on social networks from which Miley could delete shared photos was his personal profile on X. The photographs are still available on the politician’s accounts on other social networks and on the official pages of his office.
Pro-Russian media and Telegram channels mainly cited the RTN article, published on March 4, as the primary source of this news. Although information began to spread widely on the RuNet after the publication of that article, the earliest Russian-language message about the deletion of shared photos that “Verified” could find appeared on March 1 at 23:09 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “News from the world of eternal struggle" However, a few hours earlier this topic had already been discussed in the Portuguese-language segment X - for example, at 20:08 there was a post about this posted user @meioindep with over 270,000 views. In the same post, for the first time (and without citing a source), Miley’s order to sever relations with Ukraine was reported.
Thus, there are no common photos with Zelensky only in Miley’s personal account on platform X; such photos can be found on the pages of the President of Argentina in other social networks.
George Meloni
News that Jorja Meloni deleted all shared photos with the President of Ukraine began to spread in Telegram channels and X on March 4. Judging by these messages, the Italian Prime Minister, following Miley, removed all mentions of Zelensky from her pages on social networks.
Telegram channels spread information about the deletion of joint photographs “Anatoly Shariy"(996,000 views), "Ne.Caxap"(257,000), "KB"(237,000), "Rhymes and punches" (223,000), "Uncle Slava"(206,000), "Voblya • news" (143,000), "Sheikh Tamir"(130,000), "Lera Kudryavtseva"(120,000), etc.
Giorgia Meloni is the leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party, her think one of Trump's main supporters in Europe. Like Miley, in January 2025 Meloni was present at the inauguration of the US President. Among the invited foreign politicians are also entered leaders of other right-wing and right-wing populist European parties. At the same time, Meloni, like Miley, actively supports the Ukrainian side in the war with Russia and regularly visits Kyiv. March 7 she suggested extend to Ukraine 5th article NATO is about collective defense without granting the country full membership in the alliance. According to Meloni, this would provide stable and long-term security guarantees for Ukraine. Since the beginning of 2025 alone, Meloni has met Zelensky twice - in January And in March, in February leaders held telephone conversation.
Despite this, the Financial Times reportedthat Meloni pulled out of a G7 video meeting on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion because she didn't want to anger Donald Trump. However, this information appeared even before the famous meeting in the Oval Office, after which the politician allegedly deleted all the photographs.
Messages about the erasure of any mention of Zelensky on Meloni’s pages spread almost simultaneously with posts about the same act by Miley. These publications, as in the case of the Argentine president, do not contain links to deleted posts, so their presence in the Internet Archive cannot be checked. Screenshots or descriptions of these publications were also not found. However, a search of publications showed that Meloni’s account contains both mentions of the President of Ukraine and photographs of him. The last shared photo that was found by "Verified" on the politician's page, published in May 2023. Meloni signed this photo with the words that she was glad to welcome Zelensky to Palazzo Chigi and this meeting testifies to the importance of relations between countries.
In addition to photographs, Meloni periodically notes Zelensky in his posts - all these notes are also in place. Moreover, Meloni’s latest publications date back to 2023; over the past two years, the Italian Prime Minister, indeed, has never mentioned Vladimir Zelensky in X. However, this can be explained by different approaches to maintaining personal accounts. If Vladimir Zelensky covers every contact with a foreign leader, which can be useful in war conditions, then Meloni mainly dedicates posts in Italian domestic politics. Moreover, Zelensky is not the only one whose photographs are not in the prime minister’s account. March 4 Meloni met with the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda, and on February 19 - with president Israel Isaac Herzog, but not a single photo with these politicians appeared on her social networks.
On the official website of the Italian government today available dozens of press releases about negotiations with Zelensky, including photographs. Latest photos together published March 2 this year.
Photos and videos of meetings between Meloni and Zelensky are still present and on the Italian government page @Palazzo_Chigi, as well as on the Meloni channel on YouTube.
Last March, Italian journalists already noticedthat Meloni does not publish photos with the President of Ukraine. La Stampa reported that on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion, the Prime Minister did not write anything on this topic on her social networks, despite the fact that she presided at an extraordinary meeting of the G7 together with Zelensky. According to journalists, she made the decision to abstract herself from the conflict in Ukraine for internal political reasons.
In response to a request from journalists from an Italian publication Open A government spokesman denied that Giorgia Meloni had removed photos and posts related to Zelensky or Ukraine. He called this information fake.
Open journalists call the primary source of the news in Italian the pro-Russian blogger Marinella Mondaini, she published post March 5 at 12:05 Moscow time. In her publication, she refers to certain Russian Telegram channels and two Ukrainian bloggers. The earliest post that “Verified” could be found was an entry in the channel that received almost a million views Anatoly Shariya, which he published on March 4 at 11:13 p.m. This channel is often meets in analyzes of “Verified” as a distributor and primary source of fake news. The next day, this information was widely distributed in the English-speaking segment X, where it acquired new details: some users wrotethat such a decision followed Meloni’s refusal to send Italian soldiers to Ukraine. Similar publications received hundreds of thousands of views.
Thus, Giorgia Meloni did not delete joint photographs with Vladimir Zelensky. All the publications that she previously posted on her personal page are in place. New photos appear on the official accounts of the Italian government.
Cover photo: @GiorgiaMeloni (X)
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