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India Today Fact Check found that the viral video is a behind-the-scenes shot from a music video by Ukrainian artists Misha Scorpion and Vitsik.
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While US President Donald Trump shocked the world when he got into a verbal spat in the Oval Office with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — just days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine completed three years — the US President’s position on American aid to Ukraine has been no secret. He has often claimed that the US has spent more than $300 billion on Ukraine under Joe Biden’s command.
A video now making the rounds purports to show a Ukrainian female soldier applying makeup in a war zone-like. Sharing the video, people claimed that this was a crisis actor and that Ukraine was manufacturing fake combat scenes to get money from the US. A Facebook user wrote, “Ukraine soldiers have resorted to faking combat to appear war-torn, so the slush fund from the US keeps churning money their way. What do you think about this?
India Today Fact Check found that the viral video is a behind-the-scenes shot from a music video by Ukrainian artists Misha Scorpion and Vitsik.
OUR PROBE
In the viral post, several people pointed out that the video is not from the war zone but from a music video. In the comments, we also found a link to the music video for a song titled “Brothers” by Ukrainian music artists Misha Scorpion and Vitsik, uploaded to YouTube on February 25 this year. The video depicts the struggles of Ukrainian soldiers in the war zone.
Like the viral clip, this music video also featured a female soldier. We compared the viral video to the music video and found that the woman was the same — many other identical details could be seen in both videos.
When we checked the musician Vitsik’s Instagram account, we found that on February 25, through an Instagram story, the singer pointed out that the claim made in the viral video was not true. The singer said the viral clip was from the music video.
It’s noteworthy that in 2022, several similar claims, accusing Ukraine of manufacturing fake war videos, went viral just after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. At the time, India Today Fact Check debunked these claims.
Thus, it’s clear that in the viral video, Ukrainian soldiers are not creating fake combat scenes to ask for money from the United States.
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