Catfishing scheme by Ukraine’s resistance reels in Russian intel

Catfishing scheme by Ukraine’s resistance reels in Russian intel

Ukrainian resistance cells in Russian-occupied territory have adopted a new tactic to gather battlefield information for drone strikes: catfishing Russian soldiers. A story in The Atlantic details a system that uses handlers, local agents and online deception to gather information from inside occupied areas. In one case, The Atlantic reported that a Chechen commander, identified as Achmad, sent a photo from his barracks showing a map of the comp…

Catfishing for the war effort

During WW2 Resistance fighters like Freddie Oversteegen (previously) seduced Nazis soldiers in order to execute them in the woods outside her home of Haarlem. Ukraine's Resistance has modernized the honey-trapping tradition with warrior-witches who catfish Russian soldiers in order to get photos and then send explosive drones to the geo-tagged coordinates of the invader's military bases.