Deepfake Videos Use Russian Streamers' Faces to Impersonate Ukrainian Soldiers

A series of online videos showing what appear to be distressed Ukrainian soldiers are fabricated. The videos use artificial intelligence to create convincing but fake footage, known as deepfakes. The clips falsely show soldiers claiming they were forcibly mobilized. In reality, the faces in these videos belong to popular Russian video game streamers. Authorities have identified these videos as a disinformation campaign. They urge the public to verify the source of such content before sharing it.