Usagevpn.com – A Fake Euronews video invents deadly shooting at a NATO drill in Latvia, and the fabricated clip has already pulled over two million views on X since appearing on 14 August. The clip mimics Euronews’ visual identity — its colour scheme, lower-third graphics, and anchor framing — to present a story in which a Ukrainian soldier allegedly opened fire during a multinational exercise, killing three allied troops before taking his own life. No such report exists on Euronews’ website or verified social accounts, and no independent outlet has corroborated any fatality at the exercise.

The drill named in the clip is genuine. NATO’s Baltic Trust 2026 ran from 3 to 14 August in Riga, Latvia, with the stated aim of training personnel and testing counter-drone detection systems. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, unmanned-aircraft countermeasures have become a priority across European defence planning, and the…