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

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

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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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Verified Sep, 26 2022

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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.

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