Ukraine’s Security Service announced that it had disrupted a Russian operation that sent 5,000 messages to police and military officers asking to defect and surrender. Ukraine’s intelligence service accused Russia of running a bot farm that sent around 5,000 text messages to local police and military members asking them to surrender and defect. On Thursday, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) announced that it caught and disrupted the “special information operation” that was designed to “destabilize moral and psychological state of Ukrainian security forces.” The message, according to the press release, said: “The outcome of events is predetermined! Be prudent and refuse to support nationalism and leaders of the country who discredited themselves and already fled the capital!!!”
via vice: Ukraine Accuses Russia of Using WhatsApp Bot Farm to Ask Military to Surrender