The Russian man in Ghana videos are everywhere right now, with fresh leaks of secret recordings pushing the story to the top of trends across Africa and beyond. Vyacheslav Trahov, better known online as Yaytseslav, rolled into Accra a few weeks back and turned heads for all the wrong reasons.
Meet Vyacheslav Trahov, a Russian national who approaches Ghanaian women, records their encounters, and shares the videos online. Watch his trending videos.
He’d stroll through spots like Accra Mall, chat up women in the food court or near the shops, and somehow get most of them to follow him back to his hotel the same night. What no one knew at the time was that he was filming every single second of it.
The clips started popping up on Telegram channels where guys paid five bucks to watch the full thing. Then they spread to TikTok and YouTube. In some, you see him approaching a lady in a bright top, cracking a joke about being from Russia, and ten minutes later, they’re in a taxi together.
The camera never stops rolling – from the elevator ride to the room, right through what happens next. And get this: he did it with ordinary-looking sunglasses. Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, the kind with a tiny built-in camera that most people wouldn’t notice.
One new photo of him has been all over social media today. Clean-shaven guy in his thirties, short hair, smiling like he’s on holiday. That picture dropped after days of people hunting for his face, and now everyone’s sharing it with captions like “This is the obroni who did this.”
The backlash hit hard and fast. Ghanaian women online are calling it straight-up predatory. “He preyed on us because he’s white and we’re struggling,” one popular post read. Others are angry at the women in the videos.
“Same girls we spend months chasing, and this guy snaps his fingers?” Comments like that are everywhere on Facebook and X.
But it’s not just talk. A video call leaked yesterday where a Nigerian lady he met in Ghana confronts him. She says they slept together without protection, and when she asked for cab money to get home, he said no.
The call gets loud, and she’s clearly upset. That clip added fuel because it shows real consequences, not just edited highlights.
Yaytseslav has been to South Africa and Kenya before Ghana. Same script in every place – quick approaches, quick yeses, quick recordings. Some older videos from those trips resurfaced this week, and now the whole continent is watching.
In one Kenyan clip, a woman laughs at his accent before agreeing to leave with him. In South Africa, another tells her friends she’s “going with the Russian guy” right there on camera.
He tried to fight the storm. Deleted most videos from his TikTok, made the account private, and cleared out his Telegram. But the damage was done. Copies are still floating around in private groups.
Yesterday he broke his silence in a short message that got shared everywhere. He claims the women knew about the camera and that everything was consensual. A lot of people aren’t buying it.
The police cybercrime unit in Ghana has started looking into it, according to sources close to the investigation.
Privacy laws are clear – recording someone without their knowledge, especially in private moments, can mean serious jail time. So far no arrest, but the pressure is building.
What makes this sting for so many is the glasses. Those Ray-Ban Metas look normal, but they can record hours of HD video and even livestream.
Tech experts say the little light that blinks when it’s on is easy to miss in bright mall lighting. One guy on YouTube took apart a pair and showed exactly how Yaytseslav probably set it up.
Young women in Accra are sharing safety tips now. “If a foreigner keeps his sunglasses on indoors, walk away.” Mall security has been extra alert this week. Some shops even put up notices warning about hidden cameras.
The story has split opinions in funny ways too. Some men joke that Ghanaian women “failed the test”, while others defend them and blame tough times. A few say the real problem is how quickly some people trust strangers with cash and charm.
One popular radio host asked listeners this morning, “Would you go with a guy you just met if he offered you a nice hotel and dinner?” The lines lit up for hours.
Yaytseslav’s full name and background are out there now. Real name Vyacheslav Trahov, a Russian content creator who built a following doing pickup videos in different countries. His older stuff from Europe got views, but Africa blew it up bigger than he probably expected.
As more leaks keep coming, the conversation keeps shifting. Is it just one guy being sneaky, or does it say something bigger about trust, money, and how social media turns private moments into public entertainment?
One thing’s for sure – this Russian visitor came for a holiday and left with a scandal that’ll be talked about for months. The videos may disappear from his pages, but the screenshots, the anger, and the lessons? Those are sticking around.
