No reliable Western media outlet has published such information.
There are also doubts about the map attached to the posts: although “The New York Times” mainly publishes content in English, this one was somehow prepared in Italian.
The map was checked using OpenAI’s artificial intelligence generated image detection tool, which detected an invisible “SynthID” watermark.
It was found that the file contains a digital “SynthID” watermark invisible to the human eye.
This is a special digital marker embedded into the image using artificial intelligence systems. It cannot be seen by the human eye, but it allows identification that the picture was generated or at least significantly edited using AI tools.
Fake news – after the visit
The fabricated “peace terms” began to spread after visits by US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv.
On September 5, S. Witkoff and J. Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. The talks, which lasted more than three hours, ended without announcing any specific breakthrough.
V. Putin’s foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov called the negotiations constructive, and the White House reported that further steps were discussed, which are planned to be announced in the coming weeks.
The next day, the US envoys traveled overland through Rzeszów, Poland, to Kyiv. This was the first visit of S. Witkoff and J. Kushner to the Ukrainian capital since the start of the large-scale war.
They met twice with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and after the second meeting, they said that the substantive discussion encouraged them and gave hope for further progress.
V. Zelensky later said that the meetings also discussed the possibility that the war would continue through the winter. He expressed hope to reach an agreement with US partners and receive European support if the fighting did not cease. The Ukrainian president also acknowledged that one of the country’s weakest points remains the significant shortage of air defense missile interceptors.
However, neither after the meeting in Moscow nor after the negotiations in Kyiv was there any official announcement about the demands mentioned on social networks – the division of Ukraine, the capture of Odesa, or a land corridor between Belarus and the Kaliningrad region.
The lack of publicly released details was soon filled by a fabricated “peace plan,” falsely attributed to an authoritative Western publication.
15min verdict: manipulation. Neither “The New York Times” nor any other reliable Western media outlet published such a Russian “peace plan.”
The map of Ukraine’s division circulating on social networks was created or significantly edited using artificial intelligence – this is confirmed by the detected “SynthID” watermark.
There was also no official announcement after the US envoys’ negotiations in Moscow and Kyiv about the division of Ukraine or the creation of a land corridor through Lithuanian territory.
The publication was prepared by 15min in cooperation with Meta, aiming to stop the spread of misleading news on the social network. More about the program and its rules – here.
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