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BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes it is unwise to counter Russian propaganda with propaganda.

Russia conducts a propaganda campaign. They spread a lot of information, propaganda that paints a completely wrong picture on what’s happening. But I am decisively sure that we mustn’t meet propaganda with propaganda. We must simply tell the truth, he said when answering the questions of MEPs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at European Parliament in Brussels.

According to Stoltenberg, NATO and the EU must actively participate in the debates and react to false statements.