No, the Russian Embassy has not requested Kenyan farmers to boycott purchasing of donated fertilizer.

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Uralchem asks Kenya farmers to boycott purchase of donated fertiliser to them.

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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.

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No, the Russian Embassy has not requested Kenyan farmers to boycott purchasing of donated fertilizer.

The Russian Federation’s Embassy dismissed the press release, adding that the Embassy requests that all users verify information about Russian fertilizers in Kenya on the Embassy’s official media channels.

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