Is Ukraine scamming Russian pensioners into blowing up ATMs?

Daniel Hardaker

Jan 26, 2025 – 10.04am

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A Russian pensioner takes a box of matches into a bank and douses a row of cash machines with flammable liquid.

The 68-year-old lights a match and hesitantly creeps forward with a smartphone in one hand to film what she is about to do.

The Telegraph London

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