Child traitors: How Russia grooms Ukrainian teens as spies, saboteurs
Beyond the traditional theatre of war, Ukrainian officials are seeing the systematic grooming of teenagers and young adults, including those orphaned and displaced by the fighting, to help the enemy.
He blended in easily, another teenager scrolling through his phone on a bus. But in his pocket, according to Ukraine’s security service, were co-ordinates and photographs of sensitive military targets intended for Russian intelligence.
The 16-year-old Ukrainian, whose name has not been made public because he is a minor, was arrested and accused of spying for Russia, the Ukrainian security service (SBU) said last week.
