the other hand, has many, especially in washington, and posing as volodymyr zelenskyy, the ukrainian president, has gotten the russian pranksters results. just say it s a great honor to speak to you. reporter: with influential figures like the chair of the u.s. federal reserve, who thought it was the real president zelenskyy quizzing him on the global economy and suggesting the fed let ukraine print its own u.s. dollars to fund the war with russia. if you could present me printing press, i would be really happy. we have one of those, but we keep it in the basement. oh, okay. again, i know you re going to be dependent on a lot of help from the west and from the united states. reporter: it s not just u.s. officials being pranked. we would like to continue the nuclear program in order to protect ourselves from russia. reporter: britain s defense
the success when you see it. i don t exactly know what the end state will be, if they take major chunks of land, if they re able to push down towards, you know, mariupol, you know, ideal things, they could seal off crimea, if they can really, really push back. i don t think anybody is thinking about taking the whole country back, but major gains. and a key point of this is getting the russian which is pretty shaky in a lot of places. do they melt down in the face of ukrainian determination and attacks as they did outside kyiv and they did outside kherson. so, that psychological piece is huge. appreciate your perspective, sir. thank you. last month, we learned the federal reserve chairman jerome powell was tricked by a fake call from russian pranksters. powell discussed global politics and the economy with someone he
distance russia from ukraine. i m glad you re not prank calling me now. reporter: in getting to the truth, what would otherwise be left unspoken is what the pranksters told me they are all about. [ speaking non-english ] translator: first, it s about what this person is really like, how a president of a country behaves in an informal conversation. we re interested in getting more honest answers than we would in an ordinary public interview. one of the criticisms that is leveled against you is that you re always, you know, sympathetic to the kremlin point of view. let me ask you directly, are you working at the behest of the kremlin to expose foreign officials or opponents of the russian authorities? translator: in general, it s wrong to say that we are pro-kremlin. we re more pro-russian pranksters, since this is our country that we love and worry about. you say that we only call those who are against the kremlin, but the issue is that russia simply doesn t have many friends
about. you say we only call those who are against the kremlin. the issue is that russia simply doesn t have many friends now. ukraine, on the other hand, has many, especially in washington. and posing as volodymyr zelenskyy, the ukrainian president, has gotten the russian pranksters results. just say it s a great honor to speak to you. with influential figures like the chair of the u.s. federal reserve, who thought it was the real president zelenskyy quizzing him on the global economy and suggesting the fed let ukraine print its own u.s. dollars to fund the war with russia. if you could present me printing press, i would be really happy. we have one of those, but we keep it in the basement. oh, okay. again, i know you re going to be dependent on a lot of help from the west and from the
thought was the ukrainian president zelenskyy. turns out they were russian supporters of putin who previously pranked other officials. matthew chance had a chance to speak with the pranksters and investigate the motive behind their tricks. take a look. they re notorious kremlin pranksters. the ukraine war has given them a new focus and new victims to deceive. look who s there, mr. president. like george w. bush, who thought he was speaking with the ukrainian president, supposedly called to discuss the u.s. military alliance. you always wanted to take ukraine into nato, not russia, but ukraine, always, as i remember. that s right. i felt ukraine needed to be in the eu and in nato. reporter: russian