Detox. No, the Russian Prime Minister did not suddenly turn around as his plane headed for Beijing

Did Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov abruptly turn back over Siberia as his plane flew to Beijing last week? The information was given by the German daily Bild, and was then widely relayed and commented on as a possible sign of the cooling of relations between Moscow and China.

Before the press talked about it, the information was already circulating on social networks. Some internet users even shared a recording of the flight, produced on a specialized site: we see the RSD74, a plane from the special fleet chartered by the Rossiya company for official personalities, leaving Moscow on March 16 at 7:14 a.m. before returning there at 5:42 p.m. after a U-turn in Novosibirsk . What Bild describes. But Sergei Lavrov could not be in this flight. At the time of the U-turn, he was in Moscow with his Turkish counterpart, as several photos and videos testify to this.

In addition, the next day, another flight, still chartered for the Russian authorities, made exactly the same route. A repetition suggesting that this confusing journey could in fact correspond to exercises. Asked by Désintox, Bild corrected his article, deleting any mention of Sergei Lavrov on the plane. The Russian minister, at the heart of Moscow’s propaganda system since the beginning of the war, jumped at the chance to denounce the “empire of lies” of the West.

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