A video clip shared on social media yesterday showed what appeared – to anyone who wasn’t paying proper attention at least – to be Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calling on his country’s citizens and army to lay down their weapons and surrender to invading Russian forces.
In the clip, the deepfake Zelensky is shown standing behind a podium, declaring that he has “decided to return Donbas” and that his army’s efforts to fend off Russia’s attack “has failed.”
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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