Ukraine detains a gas station worker and a Telegram commenter suspected of scouting targets for Russian strikes
One was allegedly reached through a former classmate in Russia, and the other allegedly took orders from a female handler there.
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Russia paid a recruit to vandalize London mosques and make it look like a homegrown hate crime
A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to the attacks. Direct Action UK, a fake British far-right group, then circulated images of the graffiti.
One tracked tank repairs, one marked artillery, one aimed bombs at civilians—all three got 15 years
Ukraine says two of the men came to Russian intelligence's notice through their own comments in chat groups, and the third through a relative working for Moscow's domestic security service.
Russian agent who set fires in Kyiv receives 15-year prison sentence
He was one more disposable recruit in Russia's Telegram sabotage campaign — hired for two arson jobs, then left to face the court alone.
A Russian unit held command meetings, shared passwords and secret orders in a public Telegram chat – and anyone could join
ASTRA reports the chat contained operational leaks, from drone feed access to command meeting links, as well as documents noting losses and mounting pressure on frontline units.
This is Moscow’s parallel war: Russian intelligence orders spying on German drone supplier for Ukraine — Spiegel
GRU recruited a Ukrainian refugee in Germany via Telegram. His target: a Bavarian businessman supplying drones to Ukraine
Russians tolerated 12 years of genocide against Ukraine. Disrupted food delivery in Moscow is breaking them
The Kremlin justifies internet outages as security measures against Ukrainian drone strikes, but which analysts say may also be preparation to suppress domestic protests over a new mobilization wave.
Russian military police are checking soldiers’ phones for Telegram — ISW says this deepens Russia’s command and control crisis
Some units are enforcing Telegram deletions while others ignore the orders.
Russia cuts Duma internet, moves to block Telegram through VPNs ahead of 2026 elections, ISW says
Russian authorities have cut mobile data across Moscow City since 5 March and severed internet access inside the…
ISW: Battlefield realities disprove Russia’s claim that Ukrainian defeat is inevitable
The fifth year of the invasion begins with Ukrainian forces making their most significant gains since the Kursk incursion while Russia faces mounting setbacks.
ISW: Russia is laying the groundwork for rolling involuntary call-ups as its recruitment system runs dry
A new Duma bill adopted on 18 February would criminalize criticism of reserve call-ups, while Bloomberg reports Russia lost 9,000 more troops than it replaced in January 2026 — the first time recruitment has visibly fallen behind losses.
They said the van was going to the front to save wounded soldiers — it was a remote-controlled bomb
SBU detained two suspects who rigged a Peugeot Partner with explosives and gas cylinders under the cover of a medevac conversion, then parked it next to an SBU building in Kyiv — Russian handlers monitored the scene via webcam and detonated the bomb remotely.
Russia’s occupiers had a 60-second Telegram kill chain. Their own government just turned it into a hours-long crawl
Before the slowdown, target data from a drone reportedly reached fire teams in under two minutes. Now, without Telegram, it crawls through layers of internal communication — arriving too late to matter, the occupiers themselves admit.
A monk, a mechanic, and a prison chief: Inside Ukraine’s latest crackdown on homegrown Russian propagandists
SBU detained three suspects who used Telegram and TikTok to call for missile strikes on Kyiv, demand Kharkiv's annexation, and justify the Bucha massacre.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor’s Office opens case over anti-corruption activist’s intimate photo leak after initially refusing to register complaint
Anti-corruption chief says photo leak was revenge.
“A new low”: Ukrainian anti-corruption activist accuses law enforcement of leaking his intimate photos as “retaliation”
Earlier, Ukrainian activist accused Zelenskyy of corruption crackdown.
Lithuania exposes Belarusian false flag scheme to frame Vilnius for hybrid attacks
Fake intelligence officers on Telegram offered money to launch balloons from Belarus — creating evidence Lithuania is attacking itself
Ukraine’s biggest Telegram channels ran coordinated attacks on anti-corruption agencies, researchers find
Attack surges coincided with major NABU investigations, including the recent Energoatom bust.
Ukraine exposes Russian death lists of prominent figures after parliament speaker’s assassination in Lviv
The 52-year-old Euromaidan leader survived grenade attacks and multiple murder attempts since 2014 before the 2025 Russian operation.
Digital occupation: Russia deploys AI army of bots on Telegram for promoting Kremlin’s propaganda narratives
They sound human and post nonstop.