The video, which bears the logo of the genuine Ukrainian news outlet the New Voice of Ukraine, has amassed hundreds of thousands of views on platforms like X and Threads.

It falsely claims that secret documents obtained by the hacking collective Anonymous indicate Zelensky owns a luxury apartment in Moscow. The clip also includes a purported copy of a Russian passport issued in 2015 bearing the name and photo of Zelensky.

There’s no evidence for either of those claims.

New Voice of Ukraine editor-in-chief Yulia McGuffie tells BBC Verify that the clip is “a complete fake” and linked to “Russian-backed” actors.

“We have never published anything like that on any of our platforms,” she adds.

Independent researchers told us the video is likely to be the work of a Russian disinformation campaign known as Storm-1516, which has a history of making fake videos aimed at undermining Western support for Ukraine.

Darren Linvill, a media forensics specialist at Clemson University in the US, says "there is no question this is Storm-1516".

"Russian influence campaigns have used Anonymous as a vehicle to sow lies in the past, so that is not surprising.