Hackers Deepfaked a Video of the Ukrainian President Telling His Soldiers to Surrender

A fake video of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenksy calling on his country's troops to surrender to Russian forces made it onto a hacked Ukrainian news site today.

It may be the first deepfake created to deceive opponents during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Zelenksy in the video is not the real Zelenksy as the head is too big for the body.

Zelenksy responded to the deepfake in a video posted to Facebook, calling for Russians to surrender.

He said in the video that if he could offer someone to lay down their arms, it would be the Russian military. We are home. We are defending ourselves and our families.

The video was aired on a hacked news program.

The Ukrainian outlet wrote that this is a fake. Nobody is going to give up.

The troubling video has been taken down by Meta.

Nathaniel Gleicher, the company's head of security policy, said that the company's teams identified and removed a video that claimed to show President Zelensky issuing a statement.

We have quickly reviewed and removed this video for violating our policy against misleading manipulated media, and notified our peers at other platforms.

Russian troops are turning major Ukrainian cities into rubble. Government websites are being taken down and military operations are being interfered with by hackers.

It's not the only deepfake video to surface today, with a similar video of Putin declaring victory also making the rounds.

Russia is shutting itself off from the world. The news comes after Russian authorities blocked both Facebook andInstagram.

Without major social media platforms, Russia has cut off a massive distribution channel of its own state propaganda.

It's unclear if the deepfake video actually had its intended effect of sowing confusion or even convincing Ukrainians to surrender to the enemy.

Zelenskyy ordered troops to surrender on a Ukrainian news site.

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