US EditionFrench Presidency Denounces Viral 'Cocaine Video' as Disinformation
- On May 11, 2025, French President Emmanuel Macron traveled by train to Kyiv alongside UK leader Keir Starmer and Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
- Viral social media posts and Russian officials, including spokesperson Maria Zakharova, falsely claimed the leaders used cocaine during the trip, aiming to discredit them and Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict since February 2022.
- Reputable news agencies photographed the meeting room and showed the alleged drugs were actually a crumpled tissue and other innocuous items on the table, debunking the disinformation.
- The Élysée Palace denounced the false reports as intentional efforts by both domestic and international opponents of France to undermine European solidarity, highlighting that misinformation has been taken to the extent of falsely portraying an ordinary tissue as illicit drugs.
- France has intensified efforts against Russian disinformation through its agency Viginum, which tracks influence campaigns designed to undermine support for Ukraine and its allies.
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Did the German Chancellor, the French President, and the British Prime Minister really take drugs together on the train to Kiev?
This is how jokes start, at least in the old world when we could still believe our eyes. The footage is supposedly real, not made by an artificial intelligence, the characters play themselves and when the cameras appear, they are very authentically embarrassed.
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The AgeKremlin’s ‘cocaine’ chaos: How Macron’s tissue was twisted into a propaganda attack
France has hit back at its enemies, accusing them of spreading fake news that European leaders had taken drugs on a train to Ukraine. Here’s what really happened.
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