Vovan and Lexus

[4] They telephoned President of Moldova Nicolae Timofti, posing as Georgian politician Mikheil Saakashvili, and spoke with General Kevin McNeely in the United States, to whom Vovan introduced himself as the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov.

[12] In February 2016, Vovan and Lexus pranked President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; they introduced themselves as Ukrainian politicians Petro Poroshenko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Impersonating Thunberg and her father, Vovan and Lexus also mentioned the shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 and urged Canada to leave NATO.

[32] In June 2022, they pranked J. K. Rowling, making her believe she was on a Zoom call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and discussing the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[34] In March 2023 they pranked President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde while posing as Volodymyr Zelenskyy, conversing in English, inducing her to admit that the e-euro might be introduced in October in spite of some early protests and that "control" played a significant role in its planning.

[35] In November 2023 they pranked Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni while posing as a senior African Union official, inducing her to admit that European leaders were tired of the war in Ukraine and want to broker a deal with the Kremlin, saying that "we need a way out".

[36] In March 2024, the International Olympic Committee announced that its president Thomas Bach was the victim of Russian prank calls "purporting to be from the African Union Commission appear to have been made by the very same group that has already attacked a number of global political leaders and other high-ranking personalities in the same way".

This led Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to accuse Bach of "enter[ing] into a political-administrative and, apparently, criminal conspiracy with one specific party [Ukraine] to exclude strong sports competitors from international competitions".

[39] In February 2025 they called Johann Wadephul, a representative of the German Parliament and member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, pretending to be employees of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

[5] Vovan and Lexus told the website they would never play pranks on Putin allies such as head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov or Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill.

[46] After the prank on Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, Vovan said "For the mass media it is much more advantageous to say that the head of state was fooled not by two simple people, but that it was a very difficult intelligence operation in which a lot of money, time and resources were invested".

[51] In 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, clipped footage of British defence secretary Ben Wallace in a prank call by Vovan and Lexus was released online.

Vovan and Lexus impersonated Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal, saying Ukraine wished to promote its own nuclear deterrent to protect itself from Russia, a claim previously made by the Russian government.