Owners of Redan PMC social media channels were detained in Kyiv
The police have detained two administrators of the Redan youth movement channels in the social media; members of these groups were planning to organise a fight between teenagers in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv. Source: press service of the National Police in the city of Kyiv Details: Juvenile police officers of the Darnytskyi police department have established that a meeting of teenagers from the Redan movement was planned a few days ago in the Darnytskyi district, near one of the shopping centres.
The police identified the organisers of the meeting, the administrators of groups in a social network. According to law enforcement officers, the "instigators" were a 15-year-old girl from Kyiv who, for the sake of hype, created a Telegram channel for supporters of the subculture, and a 14-year-old boy -- the administrator of another channel, who called his peers to fight.
Police officers held preventive talks with teenagers and their parents. The Telegram channels are blocked.
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Background:
- On 27 February, teenagers who belong to the Russian subculture, Redan youth movement, gathered for mass fights in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Zhytomyr, and Ivano-Frankivsk.
- On 28 February, the police blocked 18 channels and group chats that were created for promoting the Redan Private Military Company, the newly created youth movement in Ukraine.
- On 28 February, the Cyber Police Division of the National Police of Ukraine detained the 16- and 13-year-old founders of the Redan PMC Youth Movement's Telegram channels in the cities of Dnipro and Cherkasy.
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