Did Bill Gates say that Ukraine abducted billions of dollars of American assistance?

In March 2025, a fragment of the interview, which the entrepreneur and philanthropist gave the NBC television channel, spread in the Russian -language segment of social networks. In it, Gates allegedly accused Kyiv of embezzlement of American billions. We checked the authenticity of this video. 

On the 26-second video, the TV presenter asks (quote on Russian-speaking subtitles): “Knowing Ilona [Mask] as you know, do you calmly relate to the amount of power that he has now?” To this, Bill Gates replies: “Yes, I admire what he did for private business. You know that SpaceX and Tesla are amazing companies. Musk has the right pressure, the necessary fury to deal with the prediction of American billions in Ukraine. You know, these mansions appeared from somewhere in the Ukrainian generals. ”

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Since the beginning of the full -scale Russian invasion, the United States has provided Ukraine with significant military and financial support. In February 2025, US President Donald Trump appreciated It is $ 350 billion, but independent researchers talk about smaller amounts. By data The Kil Institute of the World Economy (IFW), by the end of 2024, American aid of Kyiv amounted to € 114 billion (about $ 123.5 billion at the rate at the time of writing of the analysis). President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky in interview In early February, the Associated Press stated that the country received military support from not $ 177 billion or $ 200 billion in the amount of not $ 177 billion, but about $ 75 billion. In turn, the US government group coordinating the provision of assistance to Ukraine, claimsthat Washington has taken on the obligations to support the amount of $ 183 billion, of which less than half - $ 83 billion were transferred. This amount includes assistance both from the Pentagon and within the framework of humanitarian programs.

Although the news about Gates’s alleged statement about the theft of American assistance for Ukraine spread in mid -March, interview The entrepreneur gave NBC on February 4. In an interview with the leading show of the savannah Gatrine, he talked about his memoir book, answered questions about working in Microsoft, personal life and relations with Trump, and also shared his opinion about the mask. For the incomplete nine minutes of the conversation, the theme of Ukraine was not affected. The viral video largely coincides with the NBC News roller, made on the basis of the same interview and published on YouTube in format Shorts.

However, there are differences. So, the font and brightness of the text of English subtitles differ, and the upper subtitles in the viral video are absent at all. At the same time, in the upper right corner there is another date: on March 10, instead of February 4, when the interview was aired.

However, these are trifles against the background of the main difference. In the original video from the 17th second, Gates, saying good words about SpaceX and Tesla, notes: “You know, I think that in the case of USAID, he does not value the phenomenal work that is being carried out (apparently, the upcoming closing of the US agency for international development, about which Mask announced February 3. - approx. Ed.). This is not party work, this is food, this ... I give billions of dollars to the same things as USAID. I am entering the topic, studying it, hiring scientists, and I think that if he really had an idea of ​​this activity, I would not say 10,000 people not to come to work. ” In the viral video, instead of this quote, the words about theft of Ukraine of American billions are heard, and the face of Gates has never been shown for all the time. Instead, we see a portrait of a mask, an image of dollars, as well as a picture of a certain villa (at the moment when it comes to Ukrainian generals). 

Depicted villaAs the reverse search by the picture in Google shows, located in the Hollywood Hills area in Los Angeles. According to data from open sourcesThe last time her Acquired In August 2021, for $ 23 million, and since then it has not been put up for sale. This contradicts the conclusion that is brought in a viral video using the example of the picture: supposedly Ukrainian generals used American assistance, which began to act in 2022 for personal enrichment. In January 2025, when Los Angeles was covered by fires, Russian media distributed The information that eight mansions of Ukrainian military leaders were destroyed in the fire. In fact, the news turned out to be a fake.

“Verified” studied that part of the audio road that is not in the original video from NBC News, using the service Deepfake-O-Meteran employee for the identification of AI-Contain. The results of the analysis showed that Gates's voice was highly likely generated by a neural network.

The earliest publication of a falsified passage from an interview with Gates, which managed to find “verified”, appeared on March 12, 2025 at 15:58 Moscow time, when it was placed by the Prochremerny Telegram channel ”Kryminforum". He repeatedly appeared in the analysis of "tested" as The source disinformation About Ukraine.

Thus, Bill Gates did not blame Ukraine of theft of American dollars. The only evidence of the alleged statement is an interview fragment that was edited using artificial intelligence, which the billionaire gave a few weeks earlier.

Photo on the cover: screenshot YouTube

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