{"id":11872,"date":"2025-10-10T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=11872"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:39:34","slug":"viral-putins-message-to-germany-is-fabricated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/viral-putins-message-to-germany-is-fabricated\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral \u201cPutin\u2019s Message to Germany\u201d Is Fabricated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Original article<\/a>\u00a0(in Bosnian) was published on 8\/10\/2025; Author:\u00a0Armin Tufo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A viral \u201cmessage\u201d from Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201cto the German government and people\u201d has been circulating since March 2025. In the \u201cmessage\u201d, Germany is portrayed as a country in crisis and decline, supposedly not worth attacking or occupying. The statement is fabricated and cannot be found anywhere except on social media.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 11, 2025, the Facebook group SRBIN\u2013Republika Srpska (\u0421\u0420\u0411\u0418\u041d\u2013\u0420\u0435\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0430 \u0421\u0440\u043f\u0441\u043a\u0430) published a post claiming to contain a message from Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> to the German government and people, outlining why Russia has no interest in attacking or occupying Germany. The \u201cmessage\u201d is written in a condescending tone, depicting Germany as a country faced with numerous problems and is \u201cnot worth\u201d conquering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among other things, Germany is described as a country with debt that cannot be repaid but continues to borrow in order to arm itself \u201cagainst Russia.\u201d It also claims that Germany bears enormous costs due to \u201cmillions of migrants\u201d it has accepted. The country\u2019s infrastructure is described as crumbling beyond repair, and its railways, \u201conce the admiration of the world\u201d, are said to now resemble those \u201cin India\u201d. The overall point of the \u201cmessage\u201d is that Russia has no interest in attacking Germany and taking on all the problems it currently avoids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of writing, the post had received over 21,000 likes and nearly 3,000 shares on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The alleged \u201cPutin\u2019s message to Germany\u201d has been circulating on social media since at least May 24, 2025, when it was first published<\/a> on X. It has since been shared on Facebook (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>), Instagram (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>), and various online forums. The post appeared twice on VKontakte (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The portal Glas javnosti published the so-called \u201cmessage from the Russian president\u201d in article<\/a> form on September 6, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Official Channels<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin has mentioned Germany in his recent public appearances several times, mostly in the context of the war in Ukraine and Germany\u2019s position regarding the Russian invasion (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>). In June 2025, during a press conference, he described Germany\u2019s energy policy as irrational, claiming that companies such as Volkswagen and Porsche were \u201csuffering\u201d as a result. This is a reference to Germany\u2019s decision to halt imports of Russian energy resources. He also dismissed Germany as a potential mediator in Ukraine because of its support for Kyiv, calling it an accomplice in hostilities. He commented as well on the potential delivery of Taurus missiles to Ukraine, warning that such a move would destroy relations between Russia and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there is no trace of the \u201cmessage to the German government and people\u201d in any of the official channels through which the Russian president communicates with the public. Putin\u2019s official channel of communication is the Kremlin\u2019s website<\/a>, where his speeches and press releases are published. A search of the site<\/a> shows no results confirming that he ever issued this \u201cmessage.\u201d Searches of Russian state media that regularly report on Putin\u2019s activities, such as Ria Novosti<\/a> and TASS<\/a>, also showed no results. The same applies to a Google search<\/a> on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, this \u201cmessage\u201d exists only on social media and has no official source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Fabricated Message<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Raskrinkavanje has previously analyzed posts containing fabricated statements attributed to Vladimir Putin. In May 2025, a false claim circulated that he confirmed the existence of the lost \u201cTartarian Empire<\/a>\u201d, a mythical civilization that conspiracy theorists believe was an advanced society whose existence is being covered up. In January 2024, a fabricated story claimed that Putin had declared the sale of Alaska to the United States illegal<\/a>. Shortly after the invasion of Ukraine began, in March 2024, we analyzed a fake quote attributed to him about \u201cfighting the Nazis<\/a>\u201d. In March 2020, we debunked the false claim that he had ordered lions to be released into city streets<\/a> as an anti-pandemic measure to keep citizens indoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cmessage to the German people\u201d is not the only invented message attributed to him. In March 2025, we analyzed a similar fabricated \u201cmessage to Europeans<\/a>\u201d, also falsely attributed to Putin. In the early months of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, another fake \u201cmessage to the citizens of planet Earth<\/a>\u201d circulated, allegedly calling for global unity in the fight against the \u201cUkrainian Nazism\u201d.Based on the facts, we rate the first post containing the fabricated \u201cmessage to the German government and people\u201d, attributed to Vladimir Putin and published on social media and the portal Glas javnosti, as fake news<\/strong>. Other posts sharing this claim are rated as spreading fake news<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Original article\u00a0(in Bosnian) was published on 8\/10\/2025; Author:\u00a0Armin Tufo A viral \u201cmessage\u201d from Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201cto the German government and people\u201d has been circulating since March 2025. In the \u201cmessage\u201d, Germany is portrayed as a country in crisis and decline, supposedly not worth attacking or occupying. The statement is fabricated and cannot be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-checks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11875,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872\/revisions\/11875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}