A prankster is someone who plays mostly nasty or tasteless pranks on other people, so-called pranks. This also seems to be popular in Russia at the moment, as British Home Secretary Priti Patel and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries recently received similar calls. Now the British Defense Minister Ben Wallace was caught: A Russian prankster posed as Denys Anatolyovych Schmyhal, Prime Minister of Ukraine, and asked for nuclear weapons in order to be able to defend himself against Russia.

Two well-known pranksters named Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov released a teaser video of the call online, which is said to have lasted around 10 minutes. The teaser can be seen here:

In the minute-long teaser, Ben Wallace can be seen sitting in a car. The Prankster says, "We would like to continue the nuclear program to protect ourselves from Russia," to which Wallace replies that Russia would really hate that and he needs to discuss it with his Prime Minister first. In principle, Britain supports Ukraine in all decisions it makes, said Wallace.

However, this is only a small excerpt from the conversation, so we don't know whether Wallace commented further on the request, which is why this cannot be viewed as evidence that Britain would easily support Ukraine with nuclear weapons.

Wallace also tweeted about the prankster's attempt to extract information from him:

“Today a scammer posing as the Prime Minister of Ukraine tried to talk to me. He asked several misleading questions and after becoming suspicious, I ended the call. No amount of Russian disinformation, distortion and dirty tricks can distract from Russia's human rights abuses and illegal invasion of Ukraine. A desperate attempt.”

Although it is good that Wallace recognized the prank call, it also raises questions:
How can it be that the conversation still lasted a total of 10 minutes? And how can it be that a Russian prankster manages to get a direct line to a politician, apparently without any security measures?

More videos of the prank call have now appeared on the YouTube channel of Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov, who goes by the name “Vovan222prank” (see HERE ).

Other sources: BBC , Daily Mail

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