Over the course of several months, he had been bamboozling his thousands of subscribers on Douyin (China's version of TikTok) with supposedly real-time reports from Ukraine.
The content creator took the pseudonym Baoer Kechatie and claimed to be a special forces soldier from Chechnya stationed on the front lines in Ukraine.
In one video, standing in front of a "nuclear power plant," Baoer Kechatie claims that the Russian army has just seized the area. In another, he claims to have fought with U.S. Marines and even shows viewers a gun.
But at some point the hoaxer was exposed and his account with 400,000 subscribers was blocked for spreading misinformation