Deepfake case study · Video
Ukrainian soldiers, Aleksei Gubanov deepfake (Nov 2025)
AI-generated videos of Ukrainian soldiers crying and claiming to be unwillingly drafted were spread on social media. The videos used the face of a Russian streamer, Vladimir Yuryevich Ivanov, and also featured the…
- Incident date
- Nov 2025
- Target
- Ukrainian soldiers, Aleksei Gubanov
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
AI-generated videos of Ukrainian soldiers crying and claiming to be unwillingly drafted were spread on social media. The videos used the face of a Russian streamer, Vladimir Yuryevich Ivanov, and also featured the face of Aleksei Gubanov, a critic of Vladimir Putin, without their consent.