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.
One Hungarian version of the clip has generated 1.8 million views alone. Euronews' verification team, The Cube, found further instances of the video being reshared with captions in French, Spanish, Greek, Turkish and even Japanese.
Posts above the footage claim that the alleged soldier was forcibly sent to the frontline, with me
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