Ukrainian intelligence services used deepfake technology to create a fake video with the alleged speech of the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Zakharova, in which she declared her readiness to transfer the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) to Ukraine. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported this in its own report. Telegram channel.
According to the ministry, Ukrainian intelligence services, with the help of the West, use deepfake and artificial intelligence technologies to spread false information about the situation in the border regions of Russia. So, a day earlier, a fake video was published on the Internet, in which Zakharova allegedly offered to transfer the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to Ukraine in exchange for the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territory of the Kursk region.
“We emphasize: the MV Foreign Ministry noted that Zakharova never said anything like that.
They added that the diplomat’s “objection” was a deepfake pieced together from a video recording of Zakharova’s briefing on July 18, and called for trusting only official sources of the Foreign Ministry and Zakharova’s Telegram channel.
Before that, the Kursk region government warnedWarning calls to local residents about the seizure of the Kursk nuclear power plant are an information provocation by Ukrainian special services.
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Source: Gazeta
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