Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska shake hands with France's President Emmanuel Macron, US President Joe Biden and US First Lady Jill Biden in Normandy, France, on June 6, 2024. On July 1, hundreds of news agencies and papers in Russia reported that Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska purchased the world’s most expensive supercar, a Bugatti, and she paid 4.5 million euros .
In the U.S., dozens of websites, self-identified as local news sources published the Zelenska–Bugatti report. RIA Novosti cited a news report by a French language website Vérité Cachée published on July 1, saying that Olena Zelenska became the first owner of Bugatti’s concept supercar “Turbillon” (Vérité Cachée misspelled the name