Summary

Russian special services recruited two Ukrainian teenagers, aged 15 and 17, to carry out suicide bomb attacks in Ivano-Frankivsk, promising $1,700.

The teens unknowingly transported homemade explosives disguised as thermoses, which Russian handlers detonated remotely, killing one and seriously injuring the other. The blast also injured two passersby.

A second explosion occurred at the teens’ rented apartment.

Ukrainian authorities charged the surviving teen with terrorism-related crimes and warned of a new Russian tactic of exploiting and eliminating operatives to cover tracks.

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Here Here: the white-blue-white Russians, fighting alongside Ukraine, against Putin’s forces, they validly are Russian, & they validly oppose Putin’s alignment.

    there were Germans who did what they could to grind-to-a-halt Nazism, including some newspaper, too, apparently…

    same as there are US-ians opposed to what Trump’s working himself up to ( the rampaging of Canada & Greenland, so as to be able to, with Putin on the other side, rampage Europe in total ).


    I once worked with a guy who was from Iran, back in the last century…

    He told me that he was at a political-rally, & suddenly something popped/changed in his brain, & suddenly he wasn’t in the population-trance he’d lived all his life in…

    … he was among a crowd, all shouting slogans, & shaking their fists, & he had NO CLUE as to why this should be happening…

    Having “come to”, he methodically got out of Iran, then…

    Culpability/guilt/responsibility gets really muddy, when you’re talking about populations kept in propaganda-trance all their lives, by the local oligarchy…

    ( this is why Journalism, with a capital-J, which holds objectivity to authority, which makes accountability a real & present thing, is a requirement for civil-rights to endure : )

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