Pro-Kremlin media outlets are circulating a fake cover of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an effort to smear Ukrainian President Zelenskyy peace plan according to the National News Agency of Ukraine.
This story (screenshot below) was posted last week on Pravda depicting a October 11 edition of Charlie Hebdo. There is no October 11 edition for sale on the Charlie Hebdo website.
The news agency says this is not the first time Russian propagandists have created fake covers of well known publications. Other alleged covers include German magazine Titanic, French publications Courrier International and Franc Tireur, American satirical magazine Humor Times and the Spanish satirical magazine El Jueves.
Such fakes are aimed at discrediting Ukraine’s Peace Formula initiated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky around the world and in Ukraine. This is done in order to show its alleged ineffectiveness and to pressure Ukraine and Western countries into accepting unfavorable terms that Russia is seeking to impose.