Russian Search Engine Sets Trap for Pro-Kyiv Sympathizers – Kyiv Post

Fake websites of Russian anti-Putin units fighting for Ukraine have appeared on Russia’s biggest search engine to entrap sympathizers and potential recruits, according to an IT specialist.

Independent Russian news outlet The Insider reported on Thursday, Aug. 15, the discovery by a Russian opposition activist and IT specialist Artem Tamoian that the Russian Yandex search engine had begun displaying what looked like the official web pages of several units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), the Freedom of Russia Legion (LSR) and the “Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).”

The pages included sections where visitors could fill in their personal contact information, similar to that of their legitimate counterparts.

However, after careful inspection Tamoian realized that these were all very sophisticated fakes that very closely matched the appearance of the originals and differed from the real sites’ website addresses by only one or two letters. He referred to the fake website as an “FSB…

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