Hackers besides posted intimate images of the woman of a Russian commander
- Jerome Starkey, Defence Editor
- Published: 17:28, 24 Oct 2024
- Updated: 17:29, 24 Oct 2024
UKRAINE duped the wives of Russian pilots to airs for “calendar girls” photograph sprout to uncover their husbands' identities.
A twelve women posed unneurotic wearing their husbands’ medals successful beforehand of a Russian combatant jet.
They thought were making a calendar to boost their husbands’ morale astatine the petition of the Russian Air Force.
Most of them wore precocious heels and mini skirts.
They were “only excessively blessed to help,” The Times reported.
But they had been tricked Ukrainian activists from the InformNapalm group.
The Ukrainein "hacktivists" utilized the representation to place the pilots of the 960th Assault Aviation Regiment who they fishy of committing warfare crimes.
And they passed their findings to investigators astatine the International Criminal Court successful the Hague.
The 960th Assault Aviation Regiment stands accused of sidesplitting immoderate 600 civilians, galore of them children, successful an airstrike successful a theatre successful the besieged metropolis of Mariupol successful 2022.
InformNapalm launched its ruse by approaching Lillia Astroshchenko, woman of regiment’s commanding serviceman Colonel Sergey Astroshchenko, 43, pretending to beryllium a colleague.
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As the woman of the astir elder serviceman successful the regiment she was capable to person the different women to instrumentality part.
All of the women wore their husband’s formal jackets, implicit with golden embroidered epaulets and badges revealing their ranks.
Campaign medals pinned to their chests besides revealed wherever the pilots had served, and allowed the investigators to cross-reference records to find their husbands’ identities.
Mykhailo Makaruk from InformNapalm said: “We’ve caused [the Russians] rather a batch of occupation implicit the years.”
The radical was founded successful 2014 erstwhile Russia seized power of Crimea and fomented rebellions successful Donbas.