The dubious portal with content in the Albanian language "albasky.com" has published an article titled "Millions of euros of investment for the Kosovo Army: Purchase of 300 transporters and 100 tanks planned."
After research conducted through online search engines, hibrid.info has found that this article is old, which was published on October 30, 2018 by the Serbian medium "Informer.rs".
This claim by this Serbian media outlet is not based on any facts, but only states that the United States has allowed Kosovo Albanians to build an army and buy weapons for 300 million euros.
So, the dubious portal "albasky.com" has published this old article by the Serbian media outlet "Informer.rs", which does not base the claim made on any fact.
Link to the article published on the dubious portal "albasky.com":
Excerpt from an article published in 2018 by the Serbian online medium "Informer.rs":
The United States has allowed Kosovo Albanians to build an army and buy weapons for 300 million euros.
In the next three years, authorities in Pristina, the headquarters of the self-proclaimed "Republic of Kosovo", will purchase weapons worth 300 million euros for their army.
Recall that the price of used tanks and armored personnel carriers ranges from half a million to three million dollars. At the same time, anti-tank weapons and other military equipment are much cheaper and can be purchased at a bargain price from former Soviet republics, but also from NATO countries that want to get rid of weapons whose sun resources are running out, or are simply obsolete.
The plans for the weapons purchase were announced immediately after the approval of the law establishing the Kosovo Army, which will consist of 5000 soldiers and is said to be "multinational."
The link to the article published in the Serbian media "Informer.rs" can be found here. here.
During the research, hibrid.info found that the 2018 article published by "Informer.rs" was also distributed in several online media outlets in Kosovo.
Portals such as "Ballkani.info" and "Botasot.info" published this article on August 28 and 29, 2021. (see here and here)
After researching the facts, it turns out that this claim by the Serbian media outlet "Informer.rs", made in an article published in 2018, is not only unfounded, but also contradicts the course of events in subsequent years.
The budget dedicated to the KSF, after the adoption of the Law on the Ministry of Defense in October 2018, has not exceeded 300 million euros, including all subsequent years (2019, 2020, 2021) (see here).
Moreover, even the planning made since then to increase the budget dedicated to this institution was not expected to reach the figure of 300 million euros, as claimed (see here).
Analyze:
The dubious portal "albasky.com" has published an old news item from 2018 which it has tried to present as current.
The content of this article contains a false claim by the Serbian online media outlet “Informer.rs”, which at the time stated that the United States had allowed Kosovo Albanians to build an army and buy weapons for 300 million euros. However, this claim is not based on any facts.
However, this news from the Serbian media outlet was also published by several online media outlets in Kosovo on "August 28 and 29, 2021."
Based on the fact-checking, it turns out that the claims made by the Serbian media, in addition to being unfounded, were also proven false, based on later developments.
In addition to the fact that such an article was proven to be a false claim, it continues to be published by dubious portals that publish and distribute content in the Albanian language. This re-publication of this false claim, according to the working methodology of hibrid.info, is assessed as "Broadcasting of false news".
Reasoning:
This rating is given to media reports that broadcast original content from another media outlet that contains fake news. The rating is only given for broadcasting content that is categorized as fake news.