Executive Summary EclecticIQ analysts assess with high confidence that on May 11, 2025, pro-Kremlin disinformation group Storm-1516 [1] amplified a fabricated story on X, falsely claiming European leaders used drugs while traveling by train to Kyiv for peace talks, aiming to undermine the European support for Ukraine [2]. Independent fact-checkers quickly debunked the false rumour, which was based on a photo of a paper napkin likely deliberately misidentified as a “bag of cocaine.”[3]
