In Odesa region, law enforcement officials have warned young people about recruitment through social media.

In Izmail, in the Odesa region, the police held a preventive meeting with young people to warn them about dangerous offers from recruiters on social media and messaging apps. Law enforcement officials emphasized that teenagers may be offered tasks under the guise of easy money, which could pose a threat to their safety and have serious legal consequences.

According to inspectors from the human rights department, recruitment often begins with casual conversations. Strangers offer rewards for simple tasks, while concealing their true purpose. Among such offers are taking photos or filming military facilities and important infrastructure, delivering packages that may contain drugs or explosives, setting fire to someone else's property, or performing other illegal tasks.

Police advise young people not to agree to suspicious requests and not to follow the instructions of strangers. If such offers are received, it is important to preserve the correspondence and messages that may help to establish the circumstances of recruitment, and to report this to law enforcement at number 102 or to the single emergency services number 112.

Law enforcement officials emphasize that the promise of quick earnings may conceal dangerous intentions, and the responsibility for carrying out an illegal task may fall on the person who actually performs it. In the region, there have already been cases where young people have agreed to such offers, including setting cars on fire for money.