Ukraine used social networks to coordinate attacks on Russian military

Telegram messenger. Archive photoKHERSON, May 24.Russian security forces uncovered the activities of a network of closed chats of Ukrainian special services in the territories abandoned by Kyiv to direct strikes, as a result of which military personnel from Russia and the DPR died, sources in law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti and confirmed the detained participant in one of these Telegram chats. «In small towns, like Novaya Kakhovka, abandoned by the Ukrainian troops, the SBU recruited agents directly from social networks. to cooperation. Thus, a spy network was created,» a representative of the Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. received an invitation through T elegram to the closed chat of the Ukrainian special services.» This message contained a link to a Telegram group that posted information about the movement of Russian troops and their locations. I joined this Telegram group and from the beginning of April to May 10 transmitted information about the whereabouts of Russian troops and separatists 12 times,” the detainee said. -bombing strikes that allegedly killed Russian soldiers and “separatists.” One of these reports was about the village of Davydov Brod in the north of the Kherson region. and the DPR and the locations of personnel, which were then inflicted with artillery and rocket strikes. Chuprina said that representatives of the neo-Nazi organization Right Sector * often acted as administrators of such groups, he met with two — Igor, whom, as he claims, he knew earlier in person, but not by name, and Maxim, whom he had not known before. «What's new happened on the territory, maybe th something new had come in, maybe something new had left that was unknown — that was what they were very interested in. It was on the 20th of April. These people, who pulled me in, used my active position, actually played on psychology, cheered me up, said that this was good, that this was the right thing to do and that the death of «separatists», and in fact, civilians, was a necessary measure to achieve victory as they said,» the detained member of the spy network said.A well-known Nazi from the United States said that he had received Ukrainian citizenship. According to him, he was also tasked with collecting information about the socio-political situation in Nova Kakhovka, preparing for a referendum and introducing the ruble into everyday life, as well as identifying and reporting information on the residents of the city, who joined the bodies of the new government. «I regret that I joined this group, it was not necessary to do this,» Chuprina concluded. The Russian military took control of the Kherson region in mid-March. Civil-military administrations were formed in cities and districts. At the same time, Ukrainian troops are constantly shelling the region from Nikolaev, and the Kyiv authorities have turned off mobile communications there and stopped paying pensions to local residents. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The armed forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and have «significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine.» The main goal of the operation in the Russian defense department was called the liberation of Donbass.* An extremist organization banned in Russia