Moscow has increasingly pursued close ties with several West African nations, including Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso. Users in Africa recently shared two videos claiming they show Russian President Vladimir Putin saying that newly discovered religious icons proved Jesus was black.
But the claim is false: the clips come from Putin’s New Year’s Eve address and a visit to Kherson. The leader made no mention of Jesus’ skin tone in either footage.
Putin’s voiceover then claims to have opened the “oldest vault known to man”, revealing religious figures inside that “are all black”. Jesus’ skin colour has long been at the centre of a fiery debate, with many images portraying the religious figure as a light-skinned European despite his Middle Eastern origins.A comparison of the false TikTok clip and the Kremlin site full-length versionWhile Putin speaks Russian in the clip, the false post added an English voiceover, with the original audio still slightly audible.
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