Ukraine’s police chief has accused Russia of recruiting teenage Ukrainian girls to carry out attacks against military personnel.
The claim comes after authorities arrested a 17-year-old suspect accused of killing a serviceman on the instructions of an alleged Russian operative.
In an interview published Wednesday by Ukrainian media outlet Cenzor.NET, national police chief Ivan Vyhivskyi said there had this year been six cases of contract killings arranged via the Telegram messaging app, one of which was prevented.
"We are talking about planned murders organized by the special services of the aggressor state and carried out by Ukrainian citizens," he said.
In intelligence and espionage circles, the tactic of using romantic or sexual attraction to lure a target into a compromising situation or assassination is often referred to as a honeypot trap or honey trap.
