Polygraph frames their misleading fact-check around Lavrov's specific words at one point, to try to avoid the real context. They conveniently neglected the US President's early 2022 rhetoric of nuclear use, not so subtly directed in Russia's general direction. Where Biden made it official US policy to no longer use nuclear weapons as a last resort or deterrent only, but officially decreed that preemptive nuclear strike was an option, even in response to cyber attack, again with undertones directed at Russia. They ignored the months of US Congressional candidate rhetoric leading up to the US November midterm elections. They ignored that the US political candidates' rhetoric as well as the US's huge shift in nuclear policy, was largely the context that lead to Truss's commitment that the Britain would be bout-y-bout-it if other NATO homies were to go whack and jack Russia's lunch.

They of course ignored tons and tons of Western media rhetoric of about it. Their fake fact check its self repeats the same rhetoric, firstly, by suggesting the whole thing is about Russia using nukes against Ukraine, something that was never a thing. That's always been propaganda. The really threat has always been if Russia would use nukes against the US or European NATO members, in response to their involvement in supporting Ukrainian actions, or possibly attacking Russia directly on Ukraine's behalf.

This fake fact check also propagandizes that the Ukraine-Russo war only started in February 24, the same talking point being pushed to pretend this is a new war, and not the 9 year old one that started with the US and NATO manipulation of Ukraine in 2014.