DISINFO: Crimea Platform was a staged show
SUMMARY
A duet of Saakashvili and Zelenskyy put on the show one after the other. "Crimea Platform" is also a show they staged, which was not attended by a single leader of the G7 and G20 countries.
RESPONSE
This is an emerging disinformation narrative spread by pro-Kremlin outlets in response to the Crimea Platform Summit, a high-level international conference held in August 2021 that was initiated by Ukraine and focused on Russia's illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula.
The Crimea Platform summit, held on 23 August in Kyiv, was an international event that established a coordination mechanism to end the occupation of Crimea and guarantee human rights on the peninsula.
Officials from 46 countries, including the representatives of the EU, NATO, and Council of Europe attended the conference. The EU was represented by European Council President Charles Michel (speech here) and Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis. The heads of states of 13 countries visited the summit.
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