Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell was tricked by a pair of Russian pranksters in January posing as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky via a phone call.
In a video shown on Russian state television, Powell, who thought he was speaking to Zelensky, answered several questions ranging from his outlook on inflation to the Russian central bank.
The 15-minute video segment consisted of several clips, and it is unclear if any of footage was altered, reported Bloomberg.
Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, who call themselves Vovan and Lexus, have been tricking Western policymakers into talking with them for years by impersonating other world leaders….