This fake is part of a Russian disinformation campaign against Ukraine's president and his family.
Russian propaganda media, Telegram channels, and accounts on the social network X are spreading information from anonymous "sources" in the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Kyiv that Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska allegedly secretly left Ukraine in an armored cash-in-transit vehicle with 66 million euros in cash.
It is claimed that this was preceded by the fact that Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) were allegedly planning to serve Zelenska with a "suspicion notice" in connection with corruption.
This is fake. The source of the disinformation was the anonymous Telegram channel Condottiero. In the description of the channel, it is stated that its administrator is a "veteran" of the Russian Wagner PMC. At the same time, the post does not provide any facts or evidence that the episode of Olena Zelenska's "escape" actually took place.
This "insider information" was published on May 18. However, on May 19, Olena Zelenska and President Volodymyr Zelensky attended the opening of an Ivan Marchuk exhibition at the Chocolate House in Kyiv.
