A video spreading across social media of Zelensky with a bag of cocaine on his desk is - of course - fake, and the latest in an ongoing smear campaign against the Ukrainian president
Another video that circulated on social media featured a clip of a years-old interview where Zelensky praises the drug, saying it “gives energy for the whole day.” A deeper dive into the interview revealed that Zelensky was just “really addicted to coffee.” “I don’t use drugs,” Zelensky added.
The drug rumors even date back to when Zelensky was running for president, resulting in both he and his opponent Petro Poroshenko — rumored to have an alcohol addiction — agreeing to blood screening tests that were broadcast live,However, since then, every sniffle seen in a Zelensky video that is uploaded online has been labeled as a side effect of cocaine use by the hundreds of pro-Russian social media accounts that spread the videos online, culminating in the obviously fake pile-of-coke video...
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