Did Middle East Eye publish a video report saying that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan agreed to let Ukraine set up drone manufacturing plants in Armenia? No, that's not true: No such report appeared on the media company's website. It could not be found on the outlet's social media accounts, either.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X by @Partisangirl on June 2, 2026. It opened:
Zelensky gets drone bases in Armenia to attack Iran? Ridiculous how far Pashinyan will go when Iran is his best ally in the region.
The banner in the attached clip read:
UKRAINE IS DEPLOYING DRONE PRODUCTION IN ARMENIA.
The video's voice-over continued:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is planning to establish drone manufacturing plants and launch sites in Armenia. According to high-ranking Qatari diplomats, the agreement between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Zelenskyy was signed during the EU-Armenia summit in early May.
This is what the thumbnail image from the video looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @Partisangirl on X.)
A search for the exact wording on the outlet's website showed no matches (archived here):
(Image source: Middle East Eye.)
Lead Stories reviewed the organization's pages on social media but found no such clip.
Its YouTube account (archived here) did not contain the supposed report:
(Image source: YouTube.)
The video did not appear on the Middle East Eye account on X:
(Image source: X.)
No such report could be found on the organization's page on Instagram:
(Image source: Instagram.)
A Google search across the Middle East Eye account on Facebook (archived here) did not produce any matches:
(Image source: Google.)
No such video appeared on the organization's page on TikTok (archived here):
(Image source: TikTok.)
A search across websites indexed by Google News (archived here) did not show credible reporting confirming the claim.
According to InVID's Hiya AI detection tool, the sound in the viral video was 99% the product of AI-powered voice-cloning technology:
(Image source: InVID.)
