Ned Price, deputy head of the press service of the US Department of State, said that the State Department could not confirm information about the death of US citizen Rebecca Matsirovsky near Artemovsk. He told this to reporters at a briefing. TASS.
“I have seen these messages. They are not confirmed. Without going into details, I can say that we have already encountered cases of disinformation and misinformation in the context of this conflict. I can say that there is currently no confirmation of these messages,” he said.
On December 11, information appeared on several Telegram channels that the American Rebecca Matsirovsky died near Artemovsk as a result of the attacks of the Solntsepek multiple launch rocket system. These reports were later refuted by journalist Bennett Murray in his own article. twitter. He described the news as fake and added that Macirowski is “alive and well”.
on the evening of December 12 DEA News Referring to Valeria Zaruzhko, the former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, said that Matsirovski, a medic in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, died.
“American Rebecca Macirovsky from Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, came to defend Ukraine. He was a paramedic of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She died in bakhmut she, ”Wrote Zaruzhko.