The Video Does Not Show a Fake Ukrainian War Victim

Khadija Boufous

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4th March 2022

The Video Does Not Show a Fake Ukrainian War Victim

Footage from a German-Ukrainian series production set (Twitter)

The Claim

A video depicts a girl putting fake blood on a crisis actor’s face pretending to be a civilian victim.

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Social media users have circulated a video of a girl putting blood makeup on a young man. The video went viral on Twitter as evidence that civilian victims are crisis actors, and the war on Ukraine is fake.

The #Ukraine Gov'ts #propaganda actors laugh while having their fake blood applied by the makeup artist.#FakeNews #PropagandWar pic.twitter.com/jM3S3b4P5q
— Mike Allison (@Censored7770) February 26, 2022

🇺🇦 UKRAINE 🇺🇦

The #Ukraine Gov'ts #propaganda actors laugh while having their fake blood applied by the makeup artist#FakeNews #PropagandWar pic.twitter.com/kdX3k3KYfe
— Country (@RSulliv15348672) February 26, 2022

Misbar’s Analysis

Misbar has investigated the claim and found it to be misleading. The footage is from the production set of a German-Ukrainian series, Contamin, about the outbreak of a deadly pandemic. It was filmed in 2020 and has nothing to do with the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The co-owner of the Ukrainian production company DRIU, Daria Dryuchenko, posted the footage on TikTok in 2021 as an archived page shows.

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Photo Description: The video is from a production set.

The senior-photographer Artem Gvozdkov has shared photos from the production set earlier in 2020 and mentioned that they are from the set of Contamin TV series.