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Ukraine launches TikTok offensive: “This social network makes the truth sexier”

2023-01-26T20:21:35.900Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers share on this social network videos of battles on the front, but also scenes of leisure or even the latest fashionable dances.


By Cristian Segura

(El Pais)

, from Kyiv

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The war in Ukraine is the first to be broadcast daily from the mobile phones of soldiers on the front lines.

Many Ukrainian soldiers have been using TikTok since the beginning of the Russian invasion to give thousands of followers a glimpse of their experience of fire, the camaraderie that reigns in their ranks, but also to join the latest trends of the moment.

They were hundreds to resume the choreography of the series devoted to Wednesday Addam among the ruins, in the trenches, or camouflaged in the forests of eastern Donbass.

On the TikTok accounts of soldiers, light videos and precious testimonies of the war are intertwined, provoking contradictory feelings in the viewer.

The application's search engine offers, for example, a video recorded by a soldier named Gadamchiii (he has 5,400 followers) from a trench, allegedly in Bakhmout, the scene of the fighting...

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Source: lefigaro

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