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Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed India’s diplomatic standing? No, viral video is a deepfake

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed India’s diplomatic standing? No, viral video is a deepfake

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    A video circulating on X, bearing the logo of M World, purports to show Russian foreign minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov saying that India is merely an oil-trading partner to Russia and that the two countries share only a commercial relationship. In the video, Lavrov is also heard claiming that…

    — Alt News

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    Amid the India-China standoff in Arunachal Pradesh (here, here), a video purportedly showing Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh criticising the Indian Army is being widely shared on social media (here, here, here). He claims that the India-China border tensions are not a major concern and that the…

    — Factly

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A video circulating on X, bearing the logo of M World, purports to show Russian foreign minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov saying that India is merely an oil-trading partner to Russia and that the two countries share only a commercial relationship. In the video, Lavrov is also heard claiming that…

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Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed India’s diplomatic standing? No, viral video is a deepfake

A video circulating on X, bearing the logo of M World, purports to show Russian foreign minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov saying that India is merely an oil-trading partner to Russia and that the two countries share only a commercial relationship. In the video, Lavrov is also heard claiming that…

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