Voice of America shows the Russian government looking rather insecure and destabilized after falling victim to a simple propaganda campaign.

On Jan. 23, the Ukrainian-language Telegram channel BAZA, whose full name — BAZA, ce Hʼyuston (Base, This is Houston) — published a video of Trump addressing Putin. The video was marked with the logo and banners of the state television channel Rossia-1, which allegedly broadcast it with Russian dubbing.

In the video Trump appears as saying:

“I do think Putin is a strong leader, and I respect that, but he plays bad games. And that always ends badly. We all remember the story of Saddam, Ceausescu, and, of course, Qaddafi … terrible death. I tell you, but that’s how it ends. So, Vladimir, let’s not let it come to that.”

The video went viral by Jan. 24, spilling over to other social media platforms and even news outlets.

BAZA’s marketing team then announced in the comment to the original post that the video is a deepfake generated with the use of artificial intelligence.

The goal of the campaign, they said, was to “demoralize” the “most active Russians,” and “we did a good job.” The channel’s description even includes a link to its website, whose main page declares “We make cool deepfakes.”