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Evening Standard
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Katie Strick

‘Putin is our enemy too’ — how the Ukraine invasion has triggered a Russian youthquake on Telegram and TikTok

Viktor*, 22, sits inside his uncle’s abandoned flat in Moscow, worried that if he steps outside, he’ll be recruited to the Russian military by soldiers on the streets below.

Three weeks ago, the oil and gas management graduate lived in a buzzy, vibrant capital city full of his friends and had a job at an advertising startup working with clients including Google and Facebook.

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