Russia pays young Ukrainians to be unwitting suicide bombers in shadow war

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1. Man, this is messed up. Ukrainians need to know what Russia is doing here so they can avoid becoming the next victim. I can understand being hard up for money and ending up a victim as a result.

2. >The canister was primed to explode when the bag was opened…

   >Alexander called Oleh and told him he should open the white plastic bag and take out the box he would find in it. 

   >Oleh did so, but grew suspicious and opened the box to check the contents. He was startled to see something that looked like very much like a bomb

   So, he died?

3. This is horrible, but tricks like these has been used by everyone in the past, still used by a lot of agency now, and I’m not seeing it stop.

   The kerch bridge bombing was most likely done by a guy that had no idea what he was carrying. The exploding paget thing is pretty similar, pretty sure a lot of people that carried, delivered, etc. Had no idea what they were actually carrying.

   Paying some poor bloke to carry a package somewhere is probably the safest and most expedient way for secrete services all over the world to carry out these types of attacks, and it seems “The rules of war” are going down the shitter fast in the past few years.

4. I don’t understand why the supposed footage of the teenagers picking up the bomb includes a video taken with a phone by someone hiding behind a tree. It would make sense if the SBU was already tracking them beforehand, but the article says that they themselves alerted the police of the bomb, suggesting authorities had no knowledge of the attack.

5. the guardian mentions SBU’s 700 cases, and it forgets to tell us about a single case of a suicide bomber by quoting police investigators. The whole article refers to one source, SBU. Crapy journalism.

   > The SBU says it has detained more than 700 people since the beginning of 2024 for sabotage, arson or terrorism. Many are unemployed or need money to feed addictions, but about a quarter of them are teenagers, the youngest to date being an 11-year-old girl from Odesa region.

6. > Instead of a paint canister, he saw something that looked like a homemade bomb, with protruding wires and a mobile phone attached to it, apparently a crude remote detonation mechanism.

   >The device, if it had detonated, would have made Oleh an unwitting suicide bomber, part of a sinister new trend of attacks inside Ukraine that the country’s SBU security agency says are organised by Russian intelligence officers using local one-time recruits. So far, there have been more than a dozen attacks in which the perpetrator was injured or killed, according to a Ukrainian law enforcement source.

   Unironic Taliban tactics iirc

7. Now let’s remember that a video recently appeared where a courier was used as a suicide bomber to kill a military commander on orders from Ukrainian intelligence. And the blowing up of the bridge, when the driver was sent to transport cargo across the Crimean Bridge, and then the truck was blown up along with him.

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