Fact Check: A Video Claiming to Show Ukrainian ‘Crisis Actors’ Is Fake

A viral video claims to show a newscast from Ukraine in which one of the supposedly deceased Ukrainians in a body bag in the background moves.

https://twitter.com/HELDbytheBELLE/status/1500518122733936642

One posting of this video—which was shared by Robert O’Neill, a former Navy SEAL who purportedly killed Osama bin Laden and is now a COVID conspiracy theorist—was taken down by Twitter, but the video is still widespread on the platform.

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