A Russian man, Yaytseslav, has been accused of secretly recording intimate encounters with hundreds of women from several African countries, including Kenya and Ghana, and sharing the videos on social media.
He allegedly uses Meta Glasses to record the women without their consent, sparking outrage and concerns about exploitation and privacy violations.
His actions were made open recently after he released a series of videos featuring Ghanaian women, which led to further discoveries.
In the videos, which have dominated conversations online, the Russian casanova meets the women on the streets or in shopping malls, casually introduces himself, strikes up a light conversation and showers them with compliments before extending his hand and, in most cases, leading the women in a quick, awkward salsa.
“Hello, what’s your name? You look beautiful, I really like you. Can you please share your phone number?” he is heard saying while approaching the women in some of the clips.
Yaytseslav then shares the short clips on TikTok and YouTube for free, while the full versions, which probably feature sexual activities activities, are available exclusively on his private Telegram channel, where he charges a monthly subscription of $5.
In most of the videos doing rounds online, unsuspecting women are seeing going about their day as the Russian man approaches them.
At first, they appear reluctant to talk but he quickly wins their trust before, somewhat magically, convincing them to follow him to his rented apartments, where they are now seen letting loose, getting cozy, interacting freely and even dancing coyly.
The most shocking part of these encounters is how easily the women appear to trust him, and how unreasonably fast they agree to a private, intimate date at his random rented homes, merely hours or days after meeting the man.
Appearing to only be doing it for sport, and not necessarily sexual attraction, Yaytseslav picks up just about any woman in the vicinity – a mother walking her kids home, a random pair of middle-aged women at the market, a hotel attendant, a mall guard, a supermarket merchandiser and random women idling around the market.
While the initial interactions with the women are published for all to see, the Russian man doesn’t share what happens in the apartments he takes the women to, although he does pointedly share that the women not only agreed for an intimate, indoors date but also appear to be comfortably within the confines of his bed.
In one rather daring instance, which explicitly demonstrates the Russian man’s unbridled notoriety, the freak attends Bishop Edward Mwai’s Roysambu mega church where he engages the preacher in a comical back and forth before convincing a worshipper to follow him back to his residence.
However, critics have accused him of predatory behavior, exploiting women’s trust for online content.
The incident highlights concerns about consent, privacy, and the misuse of technology.
