🇷🇺 Chaos unfolds in Russia: A man sets fire to a post office in Leningrad Oblast, while a series of explosions rock Moscow and St. Petersburg as unknown individuals launch fireworks and firecrackers in post offices and banks. Several pensioners have been detained, with Russian media alleging "involvement of Ukrainian call centers".
🇷🇺 Chaos unfolds in Russia: A man sets fire to a post office in Leningrad Oblast, while a series of explosions rock Moscow and St. Petersburg as unknown individuals launch fireworks and firecrackers in post offices and banks. Several pensioners have been detained, with Russian media alleging "involvement of Ukrainian call centers".
As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. Additionally, investors are often instructed to deposit monies into personal bank accounts of individuals who claim to represent a legitimate entity, and/or into an unrelated corporate account. To lend credence and to lure unsuspecting victims, perpetrators usually claim that their entity and/or the investment schemes are approved by financial authorities. Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram.
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