Pro-Russian “activists” collect data of Ukrainian volunteers with the involvement of local authorities and regional military organizations
It is known that Russians are actively interested in Ukrainian volunteers and their personal data. There are many volunteer organizations in Ukraine, both well-known and not so well-known, but all of them help our defenders a lot. At the beginning of the Russian invasion, volunteers played a key role in preventing Russia from achieving its original plans, namely the rapid capture of Kyiv and Ukraine.
Before the invasion, there were many people, organizations, and entire parties (OPFL) in Ukraine who openly supported the invaders, and unfortunately, after the war began, they did not disappear, but simply hid.
And now, according to the telegram channel Censor.NET, the NGO International Association of Volunteers, IDPs and Refugees of Ukraine has initiated the creation of its own “National Register of Volunteers.” Interestingly, the chairman of the board of the NGO is Volodymyr Pisotskyi, an outspoken separatist who, before the war, was the director and co-owner of the Zorya newspaper, which distributed advertisements for the liquidated OPFL. Volodymyr Pisotskyi was also an assistant to former MP Oleh Tsarev, and is a deputy of the Dnipro Regional Council from the OPFL, who ignored the creation of a terrorist defense in the region in February 2012.
Colonel Anatoliy Shtefan of the Armed Forces of Ukraine sounded the alarm. He published screenshots confirming the scope of the “public initiative”. Stefan is surprised that the regional military state administrations instructed the social protection departments to consider the letter from the NGO, the departments decided to send out this information, and the territorial communities posted it on their official pages.
Anatoliy Shtefan also suggests that this “initiative” of the “NGO” may be aimed at collecting personal data of volunteers for further transferring this information to the enemy. Indeed, such a possibility is indicated by the enthusiasm with which the “call of the NGO” is being spread, advertising is being launched on social media, and connections in the circles of the former OPFL are obviously being connected.
Therefore, the colonel calls on law enforcement agencies – the SBU, Cyberpolice and the HQC – to pay attention to this. After all, the likelihood that this NGO is not working in the interests of Ukraine is very high.
