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Snopes says the interview concerned suspected U.S. leaks, not a French or Ukrainian false-information test or a Trump-to-Putin leak. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Did Ukraine run 'sting operation' providing false intelligence to US that was leaked to Russia? · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:6411cc5b2989653e904b9d251bddf696d7f784311957dd3350fa960ad9edf4aa

The claim that France and Ukraine planted false intelligence to test if the Trump administration would leak it to Russia is false. The interview concerned Ukrainian suspicions that intelligence shared with the U.S. was being leaked to Moscow.