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I Was Used as a Propaganda Tool by Russia

MAGIC OF TELEVISION

A Ukrainian woman who was falsely imprisoned at the start of the war says she was forced to appear on multiple Russian state TV shows spewing the Kremlin’s lies at gunpoint.

Anna Conkling

Published Dec. 29 2023 8:34PM EST

A portrait of Yahupova, at her family's apartment now in Kyiv. — Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Anna Conkling

Anna Conkling

Anna Conkling

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