A fabricated German newspaper cover featuring a cartoon of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reaching toward a door that is out of his reach and marked with a NATO emblem is circulating online.
The door is attached to a stick which, in turn, is attached to a band around Zelenskiy’s head, making the door out of reach.
Sebastian Matthes, editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt, told Reuters that the image shows a fake cover.
The front cover circulating online cannot be seen when conducting a search via the newspaper’s social media channels (www.facebook.com/handelsblatt), (twitter.com/handelsblatt/), (here).
The fabricated cover began circulating as Zelenskiy attended a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, this week (here).
Persons:
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Jens Stoltenberg, “, Sebastian Matthes, Handelsblatt, Zelenskiy, Read
Organizations:
NATO, Reuters
Locations:
Vilnius, Lithuania