Evidence

The claim as given is a bare quote fragment — 'Zelensky's office dismissed the report as total nonsense' — with no specified date, named report, or named spokesperson attached. An initial search turned up several genuine but unrelated instances of Zelensky's office denying different specific reports (e.g., a 2022 Reuters story about Zelenskiy dismissing a Russian-hacker-spread rumor that he was seriously ill, and a 2020 CNN report about a Zelensky-Biden call that the White House, not Zelensky's office, called 'completely false'). None of these matched the exact 'total nonsense' phrasing or a report clearly identifiable from the claim itself. Subsequent targeted searches for the exact phrase '"Zelensky's office" "total nonsense"' could not be completed due to a technical search-tool limitation encountered repeatedly during this session, so I was unable to confirm or rule out a specific, matching news story using that exact quote. No results from Reuters Fact Check, AFP Fact Check, Bellingcat, or EUvsDisinfo addressing this specific quote were found in the searches that did complete.