Claims that U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink was “arrested” on Oct. 10 are false and stem from an article in a website that describes its content as containing parody and satire news.
A U.S. Embassy to Ukraine spokesperson told Reuters the allegation about Brink “is utter nonsense.” Reuters also found no credible evidence to support the claims she’d been arrested.
An article entitled “Military Arrests US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink” was published by Real Raw on Oct. 10 (here).
The text has since been replicated in video format on Facebook (here), Bitchute (here) and YouTube (here). A tweet with a screenshot of the clip has been retweeted over 600 times as of the writing of this article (here).
In its “About Us” section (here), Real Raw News states that “information on this website is for informational and educational and entertainment purposes” and that the site “contains humor, parody, and satire.”
The site has a record of publishing fabricated stories, including stories about false arrests, often targeting public figures, and attributing its information to anonymous “sources” of the U.S. military. Reuters has debunked numerous such stories before (here) (here) (here) (here) (here) (here).
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