A Kremlin-aligned disinformation operation is falsely accusing Ukraine's allies of plotting to divide the war-torn country's territory between them in the event of a peace deal with Russia.
The claims — which Euronews' verification and fact-checking team detected on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok and X — are purportedly based on a disclosure of confidential French military documents by prominent Russian hacking group Killnet.
The disinformation claims that those leaked documents reveal a secret plan to divide the territory and natural resources of Ukraine between four allies — France, the UK, Poland and Romania — and to deploy as many as 50,000 peacekeeping troops.
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A map allegedly detailing the plan to "divide Ukraine into zones of influence" is also circulating.
But a closer look at the map shows several grammatical and spelling errors which, according to a new French government X account which debunks false claims, demonstrate that the map is not the work of the French military.
For example, Belarus is incorrectly translated into French as "Biélarus" rather than "Biélorussie".
The name of former French General Thierry Burkhard is also misspelt.
French debunkers have also pointed out that the title of the map omits the French article 'la', which they say is a mistake typically made by Russian native speakers.
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