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Anna Desmarais

Russia uses Telegram to recruit Ukrainian children for bomb attacks, UN says

Russian forces sent instructions via Telegram to two teenagers from Lviv in western Ukraine, telling them to hide a bomb in a flower pot next to the entrance of a Ukrainian soldier’s home. 

The two boys, aged 15 and 14, installed a smartphone with a camera enabled with remote access so handlers could detonate the bomb whenever they wanted. If their mission were successful, their contact would pay them, according to a statement from Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU). 

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