Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, under the guise of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, staged pranks on foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine. The pranksters came up with a legend that allegedly Poroshenko is recruiting his own military battalion from foreigners, where he promises to pay well for his work. Two Americans and an Australian responded to this request. As a result, Poroshenko conducted an interview with each of the foreign legionnaires.
Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, under the guise of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, staged pranks on foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine. The pranksters came up with a legend that allegedly Poroshenko is recruiting his own military battalion from foreigners, where he promises to pay well for his work. Two Americans and an Australian responded to this request. As a result, Poroshenko conducted an interview with each of the foreign legionnaires.
For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. READ MORE Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. "For Telegram, accountability has always been a problem, which is why it was so popular even before the full-scale war with far-right extremists and terrorists from all over the world," she told AFP from her safe house outside the Ukrainian capital.
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