{"id":1526771,"date":"2022-06-23T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526771"},"modified":"2022-06-23T13:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:04:40","slug":"fact-check-did-denmark-open-fire-on-russian-warships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-denmark-open-fire-on-russian-warships\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Denmark Open Fire On Russian Warships?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-denmark-open-fire-on-russian-warships%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526771&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02Fr68Roj6m7fBTPfGnux6qUw8mbAPb8yQCwnNWNMZZPzdAwnc44XKGn6YN2C2xrAzl&#038;id=100008269474541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ukrainevsrussiaFiosl\/videos\/354245983490011\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1655926639261000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0KvYdalQAxPrN4I7V2led8\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims the Danish Navy opened fire on Russian warships that entered territorial waters.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Russian warships did enter Denmark\u2019s territorial waters, no such exchange took place. A spokesperson for Denmark\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied the claim.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post links to a YouTube video, viewed over 255,000 times, claiming Denmark\u2019s Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said that Denmark would open fire and sink Russian ships. \u201cThe Danish Navy Opened Fire as Russian Warships Entered Territorial Sea,\u201d the post\u2019s caption claims.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian warship was accused of violating Denmark\u2019s territorial waters June 17 near the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, which was holding a democracy festival at the time, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russian-warship-violated-danish-territorial-waters-baltic-danish-military-2022-06-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. The ship reportedly left after Danish naval officers established radio contact, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The claim regarding an exchange of fire between the ships is untrue. There are no statements from Kofod regarding a threat to fire on Russian warships through his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Russian%20Warship%20(from%3AJeppeKofod)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jeppekofod\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile\/100044538336985\/search\/?q=russian%20warship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accounts<\/a> or the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/um.dk\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/a> website. There are no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=danish+navy+opens+fire&#038;sxsrf=ALiCzsYxh4i42xxvExfYPzwt8L0QLXk7pw:1655914384277&#038;source=lnms&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwiEy5zlucH4AhWEVN8KHZCXCnUQ_AUoAHoECAEQAg&#038;biw=958&#038;bih=963&#038;dpr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news reports<\/a> suggesting any exchange of fire between ships in the region took place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not true that Danish navy opened fire last week,\u201d a spokesperson for Denmark\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to Check Your Fact in an email. The spokesperson also pointed to a June 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/via.ritzau.dk\/pressemeddelelse\/kraenkelser-af-dansk-territorialfarvand-ruslands-ambassador-til-samtale-i-udenrigsministeriet?publisherId=2012662&#038;releaseId=13653753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a>\u00a0from the ministry about the incident. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/08\/fact-check-soros-zelesnkyy-pentagon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did A Pentagon Official Say George Soros And Volodymyr Zelenskyy Are Cousins?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the release quoted <span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">Kofod as saying Denmark \u201c<\/span><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">will not accept that kind of Russian provocation,\u201d it does not quote him as saying that Denmark would open fire on Russian warships. There is likewise no mention of an exchange of any kind in the Baltic Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Russian warships have been the subject of misinformation. Check Your Fact recently <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/06\/17\/fact-check-russain-warship-missile-attack-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a video claiming to show a Russian ship being hit with missiles fired from Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook claims the Danish Navy opened fire on Russian warships that entered territorial waters.Verdict: MisleadingWhile Russian warships did enter Denmark\u2019s territorial waters, no such exchange took<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}