As Russia's war drags on, ultrarealistic AI videos attempt to portray Ukrainian soldiers in peril
- Dec 15, 2025
- 1 min read
The videos began to circulate on social media in early November: Ukrainian soldiers appearing to weep and surrender on the front lines.
To the naked eye, they look real, mirroring many of the videos that have emerged from the region during years of conflict. Few have telltale signs of manipulation.
But Aleksei Gubanov, a popular Russian live-streamer who now lives in New York, immediately recognized something fishy: his own face.
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