YouTube Terminates Account Publishing Hoax Videos of UK Ministers Over Russian Link

Russian pranksters (L-R) Vladimir "Vovan" Kuznetsov, 30, and Alexei "Lexus" Stolyarov, 28, give an interview to AFP at a bar in Moscow, on March 14, 2016. Yuri Kadobnov/AFP via Getty Images

YouTube has removed an account that published hoax video calls with British ministers that the UK said were doctored and part of the Kremlin’s “disinformation” on Ukraine.

The Google-owned video platform didn’t find breaches to its “community guidelines,” but said the termination of channel “Vovan222prank” on Friday was a part of its “ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.”