The @AP has published a selection of the malicious text messages here:
https://apnews.com/1096d53b7e5a4a9682d6b434021fb2f8/'You're-just-meat'---Ukrainian-soldiers-get-chilling-texts …pic.twitter.com/AQaBfV6XXJ
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I've also created a spreadsheet of all the texts documented by
@AP and others, including@en_informnapalm & others:https://goo.gl/ap2O7C1 reply 18 retweets 21 likes -
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This is a work in progress but if there're any OSINT specialists out there who'd like to contribute to the list I would hugely appreciate it
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We've now loaded about five screen shots of the Ukrainian text messages into a slide show with their translations: https://apnews.com/9a564a5f64e847d1a50938035ea64b8f …pic.twitter.com/7rYpQqF3xW
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These msgs were among my favorite. They mimicked payment alerts, suggesting soldiers were being charged to support the war in east Ukraine.pic.twitter.com/oNz9Awf53d
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Also fascinating: the mistakes. Whoever is writing these msgs occasionally makes mistakes in Ukrainian that suggest a non-native speaker.
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That's what my coauthor (Ukrainian) said. He says a few of the mistakes are typical of Russian speakers.
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Replying to @razhael
Ah, thanks--that's the clarification I was looking for. Surprised GRU won't even invest in a UKR speaker.
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They're getting better (or so I'm told.) Bigger mystery is why burn a very useful surveillance tool on sending out spam messages?
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There's a lot of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in GRU's choice of tools/approaches.
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