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Tamsin Paternoster

Viral video of crying Ukrainian soldier sent to front lines is fake

A video showing a young man claiming to be a Ukrainian conscript being sent to the frontline crying into a camera has been circulating on social media.

The video, which shows a man speaking in Ukrainian saying the words: "I don’t want to die, I’m only 23", has amassed hundreds of thousands of views in different European countries, where it was subtitled in Hungarian, German and English.

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