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Russia recruited Ukrainian kids to carry out attacks. They got caught.

KREMENCHUK, Ukraine - Yaroslav Suzanskyi was 16 when he saw an ad on the Telegram messaging app offering “easy money,” about $165, to do an odd job. It turned out to be a want-ad for sabotage: Suzanskyi was paid to set fire to a railway relay cabinet. Now 18, Suzanskyi is incarcerated at a juvenile correctional colony, both a perpetrator and a victim of a hidden part of Russia’s war against Ukraine: recruiting vulnerable young people to attack t…

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The Washington Post broke the news in Washington, United States on Sunday, September 20, 2026.
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