The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police continue the nationwide information campaign Burn the FSB-man with meetings with schoolchildren and students directly at schools and colleges.

Such a lecture was held for students of the Miguel de Cervantes Lyceum No 176 in Kyiv. The event was aimed at counteracting the recruitment of young people by russian special services and preventing arson, sabotage, and above all terrorist attacks, in which russians are increasingly trying to involve minors.

During the lecture, representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police explained the students about the methods used by enemy intelligence services to recruit on social media and messenger apps and provided practical advice on how to avoid becoming a tool in russia’s hands.

‘If in exchange for the promise of ‘easy money’ a person agrees to fulfill the tasks of russian handlers, he or she will face three possible scenarios, all of them negative. The first is death by an explosion. The second is maiming, if you are lucky enough to survive the explosion. The third is prison, because the Security Service and the National Police find all the perpetrators,’ stated Artem Dekhtyarenko, SSU spokesman, during the lecture.

He urged students to immediately inform law enforcement agencies about recruitment attempts, including through the SSU chatbot Burn the FSB-man: https://t.me/Spaly_FSB_bot

The phone number or nickname of the person who was involving you in the crime, as well as other details of the proposal, can be provided to the chatbot. The SSU carefully analyzes all the data received and uses it in countering the intelligence and sabotage activities of russia.

In addition, schoolchildren can report recruitment attempts to juvenile inspectors assigned to a particular school. The contacts of these inspectors are listed on the flyers that the law enforcement officials hand out during the meeting.

National Police spokesperson Yulia Hirdvilis spoke about how russians work in social media and reminded that the crimes that russian special services are pushing young people to commit are qualified under serious Articles of the CCU, such as high treason, sabotage under martial law and terrorist act.

‘How do you know if someone is trying to use you? For example, a stranger writes to you on social media and offers you easy money for performing a simple task. They hint that ‘it’s not scary, nothing bad will happen’. russian recruiters can also resort to intimidation or blackmail. And the tasks can be arson, bomb threats, photographing objects, passing information or even terrorist attacks. These crimes can be qualified under several Articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which are punishable by up to life imprisonment,’ said Yulia Hirdvilis.

At the same time, Ruslan Tsygankov, a teacher at the lyceum and a popular tiktoker, urged the students to always remember the cost of every day of countering russia’s aggression.

‘The enemy wants to take away not just our territories, they want to take away your childhood. Take it away through strikes, air raids, through your parents who are at war and not with you. I am sure that everyone in this audience will never cooperate with the enemy because they know that we are on the side of truth. And those who are on the side of truth will win,’ Ruslan Tsygankov said.

Since 2024, the SSU and the National Police have detained over 600 persons who were involved in arson, sabotage and terrorist attacks in Ukraine on russia’s orders. Instead of ‘easy money’, the perpetrators received notices of suspicion from the SSU and the prospect of long prison sentences.