2023-05-30 16:48:06
«Honey trap»
This is how Ukrainian women use Russian soldiers
Ukraine depends on information about Russian troop movements. The population helps with the collection of information – with Ukrainians relying specifically on dating apps.
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Ukrainian women target Russian soldiers on social media. (icon picture)
REUTERS
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In the Russian war against Ukraine, Ukrainian women write to Russian soldiers on dating platforms.
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Over weeks, they gain their trust and elicit information from them.
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The Ukrainian secret service accepts them with a kiss on the hand.
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In general, the Ukrainian civilian population is extremely active in gathering information.
Many secret services have been relying on her for decades: a woman lures a target person into a so-called “honey trap” so that they can later be blackmailed or their reputation damaged. Also in war against Ukraine such tactics are used, “honey traps 2.0” so to speak.
Write like this Ukrainian women in dating platforms or telegram chats russian soldiers at. They pretend to be Russians who are behind the war and think soldiers are hot. Over weeks, they gain their trust and elicit them information about their location or their task.
With a kiss on the hand
They pass this on to the Ukrainian secret services, which take the information with a kiss and check it. The findings are often “really useful,” says Andrii Yusow from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s intelligence service.
Russia’s war against Ukraine is said to be the first online war, and dating sites are included. Ukrainian secret and intelligence services would also search chats and mobile data for important information.
In general, the Ukrainian population is heavily involved in the war when it comes to collecting information. Their information has flowed into around 500,000 reports on possible military targets and is helping the Ukrainian armed forces to plan their operations.
This is made possible by the government app Diia with a good 19 million registered users. Originally, it was used so that all digital documents could be used with the smartphone for identification instead of physical documents.
Now the software has been adapted to the needs of the war: “Now people can easily share information about the movement of the enemy, about their planes, the placement of equipment and other things,” says Mstyslav Banik of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
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