Ukraine security service says that The country is facing a new wave of attacks dRussia. Russian agents are recruiting local population to carry out Attacks and teenagers are easy to fall into the web.
Russia is resorting to young Ukrainians to carry out attacks with explosives in Ukraine without having to enter the country. Teenagers are recruited on the internet and often do not even know the task that is being delivered to them, in exchange for money.
O jewo Ukrainian encurnatWe buy an offer of work on the network Telegram. O ttail was traveling from its native land in the east of Ukraine, until Rivnea city on the west side of the country, picking up a backpack with a can of paint and spray it at the door of a police squad. O value they promised to pay, a thousand dyolks, it was enough to convinceê-l.
Only when when With arrived at the site to perform the work, It was not, after all, a can of paint that was inside the backpack. Eraan explosive. Uma home pump, with a mobile phone functioning as distance detonation mechanism. With ofexploded, the Russian goal would have been fulfilled and With terit would none involuntary suicide bombista.
New Russian attacks “in the shadow”
Ukraine security service says that The country is facing a New wave of Russian attacks through this mode of operation. A agency states that Russia’s intelligence services are recruiting local population to carry out This type of attacks – having registered jat least a dozen episodes in which os recruited Ukrainians were Feror lost their lives.
These novThe attacks began in spring and have as target zones more Western in Ukraine, away from the front line of the war. Who ends by LevÁ-Los cable are often Ukrainian teenagers to whom money is offered through the Telegram – Precisely as happened with With. Sometimes they will be enticed. Other times, they will be blackmailed.
“ Ukrainian mass recruitment to plant pumps: in cars, along with military enlistment services, near Squadras da police,…”, He said, Artem Dekhtiarenkobyfacing-voice do Ukraine Security Service, in statements to the The Guardian.
The Ukrainian security and intelligence agency believes Russia recruits Ukrainian networks, and A person manufactures the pump and leaves it in a combined place e, dYou can collect it, not knowing what it is. DThis mode, the Russians canm carried out attacks in Ukrainian territory without having to enter the country.
“In some cases, not only put the bomb on site, but unconsciously play the role of suicidal bombers”, sublinha Artem Dekhtiarenko, notice what, lots of timesas people not They know what o recruiter and russo.
Adolescents are easy targets
Ukrainian intelligence services have not yet found the person who made the bomb that was supposed With have exploded, but believe it is another teenager, recruited online.
Services say they have already done More than 700 arrests Related to sabotage or terrorism since last year. Most of the detainees were Ukrainians who they were unemployed or who looked for money to feed additions, but a quarter of cases even corresponded to mere teenagers.
To try to respond to the trend, Ukraine launched a program sensitization in schoolswhere warns the Ukrainians young people for the dangers of accepting theFarm Founds of Strangers Na Internet.
