FALSE CLAIMS THAT Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has an outrageous personal fortune including millions in monthly income and a mansion in Florida have recirculated online as Ukraine’s allies discuss plans to provide further aid to the country amid the ongoing military invasion by Russia.
Several similar claims have been spread, and debunked, before.
Previous versions of these claims often purported to show long lists of properties owned by Zelenskyy.
These sometimes included imaginary assets among the properties that were actually owned by Zelenskyy and listed in his declaration of interests before he became president.
There is little reason to view Zelenskyy’s real ownership of properties as suspicious, as he had a very successful career as a comedian and actor before entering politics.
But many other claims about property has owned have been proven false, including a supposed $34 million house in Miami.
Many of those false claims first emerged in February 2022 on a Telegram channel that is reportedly controlled by the Russian government.
Some other claims, including that Zelenskyy had bought his parents an $8 million mansion in Israel, were traced by the news outlet USA Today to Gettr, a social media site founded by a former spokesperson for Donald Trump.
Often, claims about Zelenskyy’s property interests have been circulated with the suggestion that any aid given to Ukraine is instead corruptly being taken by him to enrich himself — a claim that has been...
FALSE CLAIMS THAT Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has an outrageous personal fortune including millions in monthly income and a mansion in Florida have recirculated online as Ukraine’s all...