Claim
Uralchem asks Kenya farmers to boycott purchase of donated fertiliser to them.
Rating Justification
The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is Misleading.
To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. The Russian Embassy in Kenya on September 23, 2022, in a tweet refuted the claims contained in the press release noting that all users verify information from the Embassy’s official media outlets.
We conducted a thorough review on Uralchem’s official website, a Russian manufacturer of a wide range of chemical products, and the most recent project they conducted in Africa was on July 28, 2022 to make a shipment of its products (urea or NPK fertilisers) to Africa, which was signed on July 22, 2022 in Istanbul, Türkiye.