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Vedika BAHL

No, USA Today did not report that Zelensky's delegate started a 'drunken bar brawl'

TRUTH OR FAKE © FRANCE 24

A fabricated video – edited in the social media style of American media outlet USA Today – claims a member of the Ukrainian delegation provoked a drunken bar fight in New York during President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to the US, before being detained by police. However, in this edition of Truth or Fake, Vedika Bahl uses geolocation tools to verify that the "brawl" images were filmed around 18 kilometres away from the alleged site. Both USA Today and the New York police dismissed the reports as fake. 

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