Original title of the article: ОД FROM TOMORROW, A NUCLEAR BOMBER WILL FLY OVER MACEDONIA: More serious contents of the military exercise “Determined Blow” start in Krivolak.
The Infomax portal, in its title, announces the participation of American aviation combat aircraft. Furthermore, the text provides data on the number of participants and participating countries, as well as the type of exercises and equipment that will be used. In the end, it says that three US Air Force fighter jets will also participate.
Link to the article: Infomax
The title of the article is manipulative and frightening for the readers, and the information in the further part of the text is consciously misrepresented. This announcement is part of an anti-NATO narrative that has been developing for some time by various portals from the Republic of North Macedonia and abroad, and for which the F2N2.com team has previously written about.
The Infomax portal, in its title, but also in the further text, claims that a nuclear bomber will fly the Republic of Northern Macedonia from tomorrow (June 8, 2019). The information relating to the number of participants, participating countries, and the equipment to be used are accurate. But a spin is made in the title and the last paragraph of the text, in order to create a sense of concern and insecurity among the citizens.
In the period from June 5 to July 9, 2019, the largest national field exercise will be held at the Krivolak Army Range with the participation of more than 2,700 troops from 5 NATO member states and the Republic of North Macedonia. For more information, visit the following link.
US bomber B-52, is a strategic bomber of the US Air Force that is technically equipped to carry various types of bombs, including nuclear bombs. Namely, the B-52 bomber, accompanied by two F-16 fighter jets, will only participate on the Visiting Day (June 17, 2019), when they are envisaged to fly over the airspace of the Republic of North Macedonia. Namely, the F2N2 team has been monitoring and analyzing this anti-NATO narrative for some time, for the needs of which the official position of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of North Macedonia was requested, in which, among other things, it was stated that “…The B-52 type bomber will fly only on the Visiting Day, the day on which the F-16 planes will also fly.”
The F2N2 team evaluates this text as manipulative and as a disinformation, since no source of information is listed, to which they are referring.
