On May 3, U.S. antivax activist and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed Russia’s war against Ukraine was “provoked” by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the American "NeoCons.” In mid-April, Kennedy announced his candidacy for the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

In a Twitter post that received more than 5 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets during the first 24 hours of publication, Kennedy claimed that the U.S. deployed Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense [systems] in Ukraine. On May 4, Twitter added the “Readers’ context” label to the post flagging it as inaccurate.

Kennedy wrote:

“But pressured by NeoCons in the Biden White House, and by violent fascist elements within the Ukrainian government, Zelensky[y] integrated his army with NATO’s and allowed the U.S. to place nuclear-capable Aegis missile launchers along Ukraine’s 1,200-mile border with Russia.”

That is false.

The United States does not have and never had any of its Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense systems, or Aegis BMD systems, on the territory of Ukraine; they are deployed in Turkey, Germany, Spain, Romania and Poland. #ukraine #usa #russia #voanews

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