• Ukraine - Russia Recruiting Teens for Sabotage Missions

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 22 20:39:04 2025
    XPost: alt.politics, alt.politics.eu, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/9766/Artykul/3527305,russia-recruiting-ukrainian-teenagers-online-for-sabotage-kyiv-police-say

    Russian handlers are using social-media platforms to recruit
    Ukrainian teenagers for sabotage missions against military
    targets deep inside the country, Ukraine’s national police
    said on Thursday.

    More than 50 minors have come forward in recent weeks
    to report approaches by people operating fake accounts
    on messaging apps and networks, police said. Officers
    believe the actual number of attempts is far higher.

    The recruiters promise payments, sometimes in cryptocurrency,
    and initially ask for sensitive information before encouraging
    “acts of terrorism”, said Halyna Petrenko of Detector Media,
    a Kyiv-based watchdog that tracks online manipulation.

    “Most frequently they instruct the children to destroy or set
    fire to military vehicles or enlistment-office cars,” Petrenko
    told public broadcaster Polskie Radio. “The aim is to sow
    public anxiety.”

    . . .

    Other than the money, not sure WHY Ukrainian kids
    would want to work for Vlad. Likely there IS a
    residual percentage of pro-Russia people there
    however.

    We note slick propaganda has been able to rally
    a LOT of stupid youth in the EU and USA to support
    Hamas and the other Islamists who want to finish
    what Hitler started ... so, turncoats are hardly
    unknown.

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