{"id":39540,"date":"2025-10-30T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=39540"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:20:34","slug":"russia-recruits-one-time-agents-through-telegram-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/russia-recruits-one-time-agents-through-telegram-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"russia recruits &#8220;one-time agents&#8221; through Telegram in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports from European media, russian special services are using Telegram to quickly hire operatives for minor sabotage in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f russian media resources deliberately &#8220;pull&#8221; audiences from other social networks into Telegram to target propaganda and recruit users for &#8220;one-off&#8221; operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Recruitment takes place through pro-russian channels with large audiences, where loyal users are &#8220;filtered&#8221; in private chats and assigned tasks for a small reward. This creates a &#8220;pool&#8221; of contacts for quick assignments, making it harder to identify the client and shifting the risks onto the operative.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to create a network of low-cost influence agents capable of carrying out minor but high-profile actions aimed at creating pressure on public security in the EU and discrediting support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Center previously reported on the kremlin&#8217;s global deployment of recruitment chains under the guise of &#8220;cooperation&#8221; and &#8220;employment,&#8221; particularly in Africa and Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports from European media, russian special services are using Telegram to quickly hire operatives for minor sabotage in Europe. \u25ab\ufe0f russian media resources deliberately &#8220;pull&#8221; audiences from other social networks into Telegram to target propaganda and recruit users for &#8220;one-off&#8221; operations. \u25ab\ufe0f Recruitment takes place through pro-russian channels with large audiences, where loyal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}