Russia recruited Ukrainian kids to carry out attacks. They got caught.
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Russia recruited Ukrainian children to carry out attacks. They were imprisoned.
KREMENCHUK, Ukraine - Yaroslav Suzanskyi was 16 when he saw an ad on the Telegram messaging app offering “easy money,” about $165, to do an odd job. It turned out to be a want-ad for sabotage: Suzanskyi was paid to set fire to a railway relay cabinet. Now 18, Suzanskyi is incarcerated at a juvenile correctional colony, both a perpetrator and a victim of a hidden part of Russia’s war against Ukraine: recruiting vulnerable young people to attack t…
Russia recruited Ukrainian kids to carry out attacks. They got caught.
Across Ukraine, at least 13 minors are imprisoned after being paid by Russia to attack their own country.
They were looking for money, and received criminal convictions. What did Ukrainian teenagers who were recruited via Telegram for arson and explosions tell, and what awaits them after their release?
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