"This time, it is not a regular episode, but a warning video with a message that, I hope, people will hear. Many citizens of our country become victims of Ukrainian fraudsters every day. Pigs ask children to start fires in their apartments or open the gas on all the burners of the kitchen stove. Pigs even rob the gullible elderly. Don't be asleep, people, don't be a victim! A pig will do anything to extort information from you, to get your passwords, codes, personal data on the phone. It's better to just hang up than to engage in a conversation."
"This time, it is not a regular episode, but a warning video with a message that, I hope, people will hear. Many citizens of our country become victims of Ukrainian fraudsters every day. Pigs ask children to start fires in their apartments or open the gas on all the burners of the kitchen stove. Pigs even rob the gullible elderly. Don't be asleep, people, don't be a victim! A pig will do anything to extort information from you, to get your passwords, codes, personal data on the phone. It's better to just hang up than to engage in a conversation."
"Your messages about the movement of the enemy through the official chatbot … bring new trophies every day," the government agency tweeted. 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. Markets continued to grapple with the economic and corporate earnings implications relating to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “We have a ton of uncertainty right now,” said Stephanie Link, chief investment strategist and portfolio manager at Hightower Advisors. “We’re dealing with a war, we’re dealing with inflation. We don’t know what it means to earnings.” Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. Stocks closed in the red Friday as investors weighed upbeat remarks from Russian President Vladimir Putin about diplomatic discussions with Ukraine against a weaker-than-expected print on U.S. consumer sentiment.
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