MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. Ukrainian security services recruited two underage schoolgirls from St. Petersburg via the Telegram Dayvinchik/Leo match bot to carry out terrorist attacks, Russian Investigative Committee Spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko stated.

"The Russian Investigative Committee branch in in St. Petersburg is probing into two criminal cases involving underage girls who, after using the abovementioned match bot, were lured into illegal activities through deception," she said.

As a result, in September 2026, one of the schoolgirls set fire to a gas station while the other doused police vehicles at a station with flammable liquid and set them on fire. She then headed toward a police station located at a different address but was detained. Both girls are currently under house arrest.

In addition, a teenager in the Leningrad Region was charged with a criminal offense for committing illegal acts against an individual who contacted him after he met a girl on the Dayvinchik/Leo match bot. The individual threatened the teenager and his family with negative consequences. The teenager purchased flammable liquids, set fire to gas stations in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, and recorded his actions. He has been placed under house arrest.

An 18-year-old native of Vladivostok has been charged with breaking into a transformer cabinet on the Leningrad branch of the Moscow Railway on October 1, 2026. He doused the cabinet with solvent and set it on fire while recording the incident on his phone. He was also recruited for the crime via the Dayvinchik/Leo match bot. The court remanded him in custody.

"The Investigative Committee, in conjunction with the FSB and the Russian Interior Ministry, continues to document evidence that Ukraine’s special services are using a popular Telegram chatbot to recruit Russian citizens, primarily young adults and teenagers, into sabotage and terrorist activities through deception and psychological manipulation," Petrenko emphasized. Several young men and women were detained in August and October in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Leningrad Region, and a number of other regions for setting fire to law enforcement vehicles, gas stations, and energy and transport infrastructure facilities. All suspects are charged with crimes under Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code (Terrorist Act).