The SSU and the National Police, together with the Yedyni Novyny (United News) telethon and the dovidka.info project of the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security, have launched a new stage of the campaign aimed at combating the recruitment of Ukrainian teenagers by russian special services.

Every day, russian special services try to recruit Ukrainian youth to commit crimes against Ukraine through computer games, chat, and social networks. Offering “easy money,” the enemy asks them to photograph military facilities, set fire to AFU vehicles, transport packages containing explosives, or commit other acts that fall under the law as sabotage or terrorism.

In addition, russian handlers turn minors into suicide bombers, killing them by detonating explosives that they were supposed to deliver to a specific location.

The speakers of the campaign include the following presenters of the Yedyni Novyny telethon: Alla Mazur, Lyudmyla Barbir, Oleksandr Vasylchenko, Valentyna Khamaiko, Petro Demianchuk, Oleh Ivanytsia, Tetiana Vysotska, Olena Chabak, and Viktoriia Malosvitna, who will inform about the dangers of recruitment to a wide audience. Each of them has teens who could potentially become targets of interest for russian special services.

In videos that will be broadcast during the telethon, the hosts urge viewers to tell their children about the dangers of recruitment, how russian intelligence services operate online, and to be vigilant and pay attention to who minors chat with online and on messaging apps. Cooperation with the enemy can end in tragedy: the death or injury of children from explosions and imprisonment, because the SSU and the National Police find all perpetrators of crimes.

The TV hosts also advise viewers to report any enemy offers to:

• the official SSU chatbot Burn the FSB-Man - @spaly_fsb_bot on Telegram;
• the SSU hotline at 0800 501 482;
• or the National Police at 102.

To note: As part of the campaign to counter the recruitment of Ukrainian teenagers by russian special services, at the end of 2024, the SSU launched a special chatbot Burn the FSB-Man - t.me/spaly_fsb_bot on Telegram. The chatbot allows you to provide the SSU with details on a recruitment attempt in a few clicks: specify the social network or messenger app used by the russian services, indicate which targets were offered to commit sabotage, and pass on the phone number or nickname of the person who was engaging you to commit the crime.

As of today, this chatbot has already received more than 10,000 reports.