Man, sit down and hold on tight, because what I found out this morning is downright mind-blowing! Listen up, bro, because the Russians have come up with a new method, straight out of a spy movie, but it's real, cold-blooded stuff. Basically, they're recruiting young girls, including minors, through dating apps and Telegram to take out Ukrainian soldiers. And it's not just a one-off, but an organized campaign, with six cases since the start of the year alone. I'm telling you, it's a damn mess.
Listen to this: the head of the Ukrainian Police, Ivan Vyhivskyi, sounded the alarm: Russian intelligence services are using Telegram like a flesh market. Recruiters promise the girls easy money, rent them apartments, buy them alcohol, and teach them how to administer methadone or other poisons into the soldiers' drinks. And what do these girls do? They play the field on dating sites, befriend the soldiers, then slip poison into their glasses. Some of them drop like flies, while others, luckily, get caught in time. One case was foiled just before it happened – thank God, because you don't know what to believe anymore.
But wait, there's more! The most shocking case was in the Zhytomyr region on June 5. A 17-year-old girl from Berdychiv was detained after poisoning a 27-year-old soldier. The girl had been approached on Telegram channels promising "quick cash" – just like those online offers "make 1000 euros a day from home." Initially, she did courier work and drug distribution, then she got the mission: to play the field with soldiers and slip poison into their drinks. And that's exactly what she did. She met a soldier in a rented apartment, administered the poison, and the poor guy died on the spot. She tried to cover it up, but got caught, and now she's charged with premeditated murder and high treason – facing life in prison, bro.
And she's not the only one! In April, in Uzhhorod, a 26-year-old woman from Zaporizhzhia is suspected of doing the same thing: she played the field on a dating site, met a soldier, put poison in his drink, and sent him to the other world. Investigators say Russian agents used her identity to create a fake profile. Now she's charged with high treason, and if found guilty, same fate: life in prison.
And so, bro, the Financial Times reported that 21% of people detained in Ukraine for collaboration with Russia last year were teenagers. The youngest victim of recruitment? An 11-year-old child, whom the Russians were trying to get into sabotage. Recruitment happens through Telegram, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, and online games, with payments in cryptocurrencies. That's exactly how we brainwash our kids with TikTok – see, my 14-year-old Brian spends all day on apps, but at least the Russians aren't recruiting him, he just plays FIFA and wants sneakers. But I'm thinking, bro, how easy it is to trick a kid with promises of easy money…
Vyhivskyi sounded the alarm for soldiers: "Be careful who you talk to online, because you never know if it's a trap." And he also said that the Russians consider recruits as mere disposable tools – meaning after they do their job, they throw them away. And what can I say, bro? As long as the Russians play dirty, and Ukraine struggles to survive, we Romanians should keep a close eye on what's happening at home. Because if the crisis hits us too, you never know who might slip poison into your beer glass. Alright, I'm off to tell Mioara to stop hanging out on Tinder for easy money offers, because those only exist in fairy tales.
