information on refugees issued by a Russian center shared by RT claiming it was published by UN

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Publish: 2018-09-07 , 10:42 AM

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تعديل: 2025-03-19 , 10:31 PM

Claim

Russia Today website posted today a report titled "1.7m Syrian refugees want to go back to their country" saying that more than 1.7 in 9 countries including Lebanon, Turkey and Germany expressed willingness they want to go back to Syria.

Russia Today account on Instagram published an infograph on refugees' numbers and claimed it was published by UN, other websites also shared same claim.

after Verify-Sy monitored official UN accounts and websites, it turns out the numbers of refugees who want to go back to Syria wasn't published by UN but by a 'Russian refugees center' established by Russian Ministry of Defense 2 months ago in Syria.

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