The harassment begins after the alleged Ukrainian soldiers ask to see her documents. When they hear that she is Russian-speaking, they demand that she change her language to Ukrainian, calling her "pig". One of the soldiers then fires his weapon to intimidate the woman.
The video has been spread by several pro-Russian Telegram channels, some with over a million followers, as well as by Russian authorities. Russian Foreign Ministry posted the video on its Twitter account, with the caption: "Once a Nazi, always a Nazi".
By comparing landmarks in the video with satellite imagery, several online activists have managed to find the location — and concluded that Ukrainian soldiers cannot possibly have been guilty of the harassment. Namely, the site is located in Russian-controlled territory, several miles from the front line, where Ukrainian soldiers cannot operate.
"It is completely unlikely that Ukrainian soldiers would behave like that behind the front inside Russian-controlled territory," Lieutenant Colonel Joakim Paasikivi wrote in an email to SVT.
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The video was circulated among others by the Russian Foreign Ministry, which later removed the video from its twitter account. Photo: Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs