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Mared Gwyn Jones

No, NATO chief Mark Rutte didn’t say Ukraine is an ‘American territory’

A video circulating widely online falsely claims to show NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte describing Ukraine as a US territory during the Alliance’s recent summit in The Hague.

The video, in which Rutte speaks in English, has been subtitled in Russian to falsely quote Rutte as saying the NATO Alliance must ensure “Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin will never, ever again try to take away a single square kilometre of Ukrainian territory from the Americans".

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