Wrote: Etrit Rexhepi
The Facebook page named "The Reis" published a status yesterday (March 27) that reads "Local sources report that a senior NATO general has been killed in Ukraine.".
After verification by hibrid.info, no credible source has been found that confirms the claim in this status.
The fact that this claim was initially published in Russian-language media, hibrid.info has assessed as sufficient basis for addressing this claim.
Link to the status published by the "The Reis" Facebook page:
Hibrid.info has researched the search engine, "Google", for the same claim, in Albanian (here) and in English (here), but has not found any sources confirming it.
The only sources that have published the same claim are some Russian-language media outlets, which have written about the death of a Polish general, Adam Marczak, alluding that the latter was killed in Ukraine (see here and here).
These Russian media outlets have not provided any facts for the claim but have based it on the lack of clarification of the general's manner of death, although hibrid.info has found the announcement of the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces, published on the official account on "X", where it is announced that General Marczak died off duty from natural causes (see here).
The death of the Polish general, as announced by official military authorities in Poland, was also found and published by several Polish-language media outlets (see here and here)
While the allusions linking the death of the Polish general to several others (here), are related to Russian propaganda which implicates NATO with direct participation in the fighting in Ukraine (here), hibrid.info research has proven that there is still no decision-making by the largest military organization to send troops to Ukraine (see here and here).
Analyze:
The claim of the assassination of a senior NATO general in Ukraine is not true.
Hibrid.info has verified that this is the death of a Polish general from natural causes, which Russian-language media have tried to link to the war in Ukraine.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this claim as "Disinformation".
Rating:
"Disinformation" is defined as information content that contains a "mix" of inaccurate sources or even half-truthful attributes, and that is created and/or distributed with the deliberate intention of causing harm. The motive behind the producers/distributors of disinformation content lies in achieving a political, financial, psychological or social goal.