Setting It Level · Viral Post Fact Check · October 19, 2026

Coca Cola company is implicated in the purchase of children from Ukraine. We're talking black market organ harvesting." The post shows a video clip of a Russian official at a press conference.

Screenshot of the viral post we checked, claiming: Coca Cola company is implicated in the purchase of children from Ukraine. We're talking black market organ harvesting." The post shows a video clip of a Russian official at a press — The post as it circulated. Faces of private individuals are blurred.

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Who said it: Anna Kuznetsova, deputy speaker of Russia's State Duma and the country's former children's rights commissioner. She spoke on Oct. 5, 2023, at a Moscow press conference on "children's rights violations in Ukraine" at the Rossiya Segodnya (RIA Novosti / Sputnik) press center. The clip aired on Russia's state-owned Zvezda channel.

What she said: that Russian troops "liberating" Sviatohirsk found documents in an orphanage on the sale of children, with references to British private military companies, and that "one of the payers was the Coca-Cola company."

No evidence: she showed no documents, and none were made public afterward. Fact-checkers and news outlets including Kyiv Post, Myth Detector, Raskrinkavanje and Lithuania's 15min.lt found nothing to support the claim and described it as Russian disinformation. We found no evidence tying Coca-Cola to any sale of Ukrainian children.

About the organs: the quoted line never mentions organ harvesting. At the same event Kuznetsova separately claimed, also without evidence, that "black transplantology" makes up 7% of Ukraine's budget. Claims that Ukraine harvests children's organs have been debunked repeatedly.

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