LONDON - Russian pranksters who often target people the Russian state is interested in released footage on June 26 of a video call with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron after tricking him into thinking he was speaking to a former Ukrainian president.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron held a video call with someone purporting to be former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, Britain's Foreign Office said earlier in June.
The duo is well-known inside Russia having duped a string of Western politicians over the years, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and, in 2022, then British defence minister Ben Wallace. In the June 26 video, the authenticity of which Reuters could not independently verify, Mr Cameron is seen and heard talking about sensitive Ukraine-related topics.In particular, he is heard talking about a private dinner he had with US presidential candidate Donald Trump in April during which he lobbied Trump to allow Republicans to vote in favour of US military aid for Ukraine.
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