Suspect used AI to mock up videos, including one claiming he had seized Zelensky’s car
“Hello, Chinese friends,” the soldier in Ukraine tells his admirers many thousands of miles away. “I’m from Chechnya, Russia. Behind me is a nuclear power plant in Ukraine. We just conquered this place and caught some big fish. One of them was a US consultant.”
The bearded man, who just happened to speak Mandarin, soon became a social media sensation on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, popping up across Ukraine to issue regular updates from the battlefield. “Salute. The red flag stands tall, Huzzah,” he says in another video from the front line, in front of a car. “The extended Lincoln behind me is Zelensky’s car that we’ve seized.”
