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Ukraine's leader has been subject to myriad rumors and claims.
by Evan Pattison, Dec. 23, 2022
Image courtesy of Zelenskyy / Instagram
As the war in Ukraine raged on in early 2023, rumors about the country's president rage with it. From claims about his career, to rumors about illicit drug use, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a magnet for doctored images, misinformation, and more.
Continue below for a collection of stories about the Ukraine president's history before and after the war began.
Jan. 4, 2023
This strain of misinformation was bolstered by an incorrectly placed quotation mark in a Tucker ...
Dec. 23, 2022
A digitally edited photo purports to show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sporting short ...
May 4, 2022
A viral video claimed to show cocaine on the Ukrainian president's desk as he video-called the b ...
April 7, 2022
Revelations about offshore financial dealings of the Ukrainian president emerged in October 2021 ...
April 11, 2022
If you want to smear a politician in the eyes of some far-right circles, just allege some sort o ...
March 18, 2022
The one where he played a schoolteacher who was elected president of Ukraine.
April 20, 2022
Some countries have truly banned public displays of the letter "Z," which is considered a symbol ...
March 11, 2022
Volodymyr Zelenskyy truly had a successful entertainment career before becoming president of Ukr ...
March 28, 2022
The Ukrainian president became something of a cult figure during Russia's invasion of his countr ...
March 7, 2022
There's been a concerted effort by Russian propagandists to depict Ukrainian's president as a Nazi.
March 16, 2022
One way to tell that this video is fake is that the size of Zelenskyy's head is disproportionate ...
Dec. 3, 2019
The U.S. president engaged in some wishful thinking about a major interview his Ukrainian counte ...
Dec. 23, 2022
The number 46 does not, in fact, have anything to do with Nazism.
