In April 2026, an image resurfaced online purportedly showing an Israeli passport belonging to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with users who shared it claiming he was an agent for Mossad — Israel's intelligence agency.
The caption of an Instagram post (archived) that was also shared on X and Facebook read (translation via DeepL):
MOSSAD AGENT IDENTIFIED IN UKRAINE
The primary mission of this agent of the Khazar Mafia is to "Ukrainize" Europe and drive it toward self-destruction. He is considered an extremely dangerous asset and an unscrupulous psychopath capable of committing the most horrific crimes.
It was not the first time the image of Zelenskyy's alleged Israeli passport spread online — it first emerged in December 2025 from a parody account on X that the platform has since suspended.
Because Snopes was unable to identify any earlier instances of the image, we've rated this claim as originated as satire. The above Instagram account that resurfaced the claim in April 2026 similarly labeled itself an account for "conspiracy theory" content.
One of the most obvious visual clues that the passport allegedly belonging to Zelenskyy was inauthentic was the incorrect spelling of his last name. The official website for the Ukrainian president's office spells his name as "Zelenskyy" — not "Zelensky," as it appears on the fabricated passport.
Although the April 2026 Instagram post cropped a significant portion of the image, fact-checking outlet LeadStories identified another discrepancy in older posts displaying the full image: the machine-readable code at the bottom of the passport indicates the owner's citizenship of the issuing country, not other citizenships the passport owner may have. The fake image included "UKR" in the code. If Israel had issued Zelenskyy an authentic passport, it would have read only "ISR," according to pages 17-20 of the International Civil Aviation Organization's internationally recognized standardized form.
Additionally, Ukrainian public officials are not permitted to hold multiple citizenships, though members of the general public can.
For further reading, we previously fact-checked a similar satirical claim about an Israeli passport allegedly belonging to former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.