Meduza
Europe · 21 mins ago
Russia’s FSB says it detained 46 users of a Telegram dating bot, ages 12 to 22, whom Ukrainian intelligence recruited for sabotage. But the chats in the videos offered as proof are on a Russian app.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had detained 46 users of Leonardo Daivinchik, a popular Telegram dating bot. All of them are young Russians between the ages of 12 and 22, and all of them, the FSB claims, were recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services to commit crimes in Russia. As proof of this “recruitment,” security officials released videos that show the detainees weren’t corresponding on Telegram at all. That didn’t stop the security services from blaming Pavel Durov for…
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