2024-08-26
17 分钟In late November 2023, an odd video appeared on YouTube.
Hello, guys.
My name is Shahzad Nasser.
I'm here to share an interesting discovery of mine.
That interesting discovery was about a purchase of two yachts for tens of millions of dollars.
Pictures of the luxury vessels float up on the screen, as do pictures of the buyers and screenshots of documents that purport to be sales contracts.
The raspy voice tells us that something fishy's going on.
Now here's where it gets interesting.
Both Boris and Serhiy are Ukrainian citizens.
Both are close friends with the President of Ukraine.
Both are Zhenitsky proxies.
Where did the money come from?
The mysterious Shanzad Nasser, who has no online profile to speak of, waits nearly until the end of the video for the big reveal.
Over last two years, US has directed more than $100 billion to Ukraine with virtually no oversight.
It's true that the US has given a large sum of money to Ukraine's war effort, but most of the rest of the video was false.
The yachts, we checked with the owners, they hadn't been sold at all, and certainly not to friends of Zelenskyy.
It was a classic piece of disinformation, old fashioned fake news.
But this clip started a chain reaction.
Although virtually nobody watched this video on YouTube, the story was picked up the next day by a website called DC Weekly.
It was repeated on telegram channels and on X, on Facebook and other social media sites.