{"id":46767,"date":"2026-05-08T15:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=46767"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:29:57","slug":"russia-spreads-deepfake-posing-as-serviceman-of-the-60th-separate-mechanized-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/russia-spreads-deepfake-posing-as-serviceman-of-the-60th-separate-mechanized-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"russia spreads deepfake posing as serviceman of the 60th Separate Mechanized Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center has recorded the spread on social media of an emotional video address to the military command allegedly made by a serviceman of the 60th Separate Mechanized Brigade.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the video is a deepfake. Analysis of the footage confirms the use of deepfake technologies to generate the \u201ccharacter\u2019s\u201d face. The voice is robotic and contains specific intonation errors, indicating the use of AI-generated audio overlays.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f To artificially increase reach and push the video into recommendation algorithms, a bot network was involved in promoting the publication. In the comments, bots are mass-posting identical messages, many of which do not even correspond to the topic of the video.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of such disinformation is to undermine trust in the Defense Forces of Ukraine and spread false information about the situation on the frontline.<\/p>\n<p>The Center previously reported that russian propaganda is scaling up the use of AI-generated videos allegedly featuring \u201cmilitary personnel\u201d to promote its narratives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center has recorded the spread on social media of an emotional video address to the military command allegedly made by a serviceman of the 60th Separate Mechanized Brigade. In reality, the video is a deepfake. Analysis of the footage confirms the use of deepfake technologies to generate the \u201ccharacter\u2019s\u201d face. The voice is robotic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}