January 19, 2025, on the YouTube channel NEWS.BY: News of Belarus and the World, a 40-minute broadcast “Around the Planet” was posted, in which it was stated:
The halt of natural gas transit through Ukrainian territory led to an unexpected effect for the Kyiv regime. EU countries began purchasing Russian LNG at record rates, reports “Politika.” The authors of the material refer to data from an analytical company. In the first 15 days of this year, 27 European countries imported more than 837,000 tons of gas from Russia. This is a record compared to the same period last year. Meanwhile, natural gas reserves in Europe’s underground storage facilities are rapidly depleting, dropping to 60-65%. Russia will provide humanitarian gas supplies to Transnistria. This was stated by the head of the unrecognized republic. It is expected that the supplies will go through the Turkish Stream, followed by reverse flows into Moldova and then into Transnistria. The situation in the region can be described as a humanitarian catastrophe. The energy crisis in Moldova is a consequence of the criminal anti-people policies of the Chisinau authorities. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. Cold, hunger, abyss, darkness – this is what the residents of Moldova and Transnistria received as the promised result of the criminal anti-people policies of the Chisinau authorities. Power supply disruptions have affected all segments of the population, except perhaps for government officials. People are massively switching to firewood heating, and the number of illnesses due to hypothermia has sharply increased. And this is Europe in the 21st century. Zakharova recalled that it was Chisinau that refused to settle the issue of historical debt to “Gazprom,” while Ukraine shut down the transit of Russian gas through its territory.
Our verdict based on the conducted analyses:
Verdict: Incorrect
Reasons:
- The thesis or claim is completely false: information from multiple sources or opinions of multiple experts in the relevant field contradict it.
- Cause-and-effect relationships clearly do not exist as stated.
- When quoting, significant parts are omitted, rearranged, altered, or misinterpreted from a foreign language, fundamentally changing the meaning of what was said.
- The event occurred in substantially different ways than stated.
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The website AGSI (Aggregated Gas Storage Inventory) provides real-time data on natural gas reserves in Europe’s underground storage facilities, including fill levels, consumption, and dynamics of change.
Let’s examine gas reserve values as of January 19, 2025:
As seen, it is correct to assess gas reserves in absolute values rather than the average. The situation in Portugal may seem very good, but gas reserves are several times smaller than, for example, in Latvia.
Now, we will analyze disinformation narratives and conduct a semantic analysis of the entire broadcast, including the quoted excerpt:
Emphasizes the negative impact of the West on global politics and economy, as well as the necessity of creating alternative alliances such as SCO and BRICS.
Dehumanization
Anti-elitism
Fact distortion
Claims that a secret “deep state” controls global politics and economy, manipulating events to its advantage.
Metanarrative
Concept substitution
