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Mon Jan 19, 2026, 07:48 PM 2 hrs ago

Russia claims France wants its Oreshnik missile - Break the Fake - TVP WORLD



The Kremlin claims that France is eager to acquire Russia's Oreshnik missile. Vladimir Chizhov, a senior Russian official, made this claim and suggested that French President Emmanuel Macron wants to buy the missile, but Russia is "not ready to sell."

However, there is one problem: no such request has ever been made. So why make such claims? Join Benjamin Lee in a new episode of Break The Fake to break down how propaganda works when facts run out – and why invented buyers are now part of the Kremlin's political toolkit.
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