Check the bot
Some of the safe chatbots on Telegram already have a blue verification mark Verification mark. However, not all of them have it yet. If you don’t see it and you’re not sure if the bot you’re using is genuine, check it out here: 👇🏻
This is a database of verified Ukrainian chatbots developed by government agencies or volunteers. This is a product that experts from the Centre for Strategic Communications have developed together with specialists from the Cyber Police, the Ministry of Digital Transformation, and the State Special Communications Service.
With this unique tool, you will be able to check who owns the Telegram chatbot you are already using or are about to use. You can also check whether the chatbot is genuine.
Why is it important?
Russians massively create fakes of Ukrainian chatbots to confuse you and make you voluntarily give them your data.
A fake bot can look exactly the same as a real, Ukrainian one. The difference is barely noticeable. For example, there may be an extra letter or symbol in the name or link
To make it easier for you to navigate and detect a fake, we have created this tool – a bot checker.
How it works:
- Enter the name or link to the chatbot in the search field and click the search button.
- The site will show you whether the chatbot is real, who created it, and how many fake clones it has.
- If the bot is not in the database and it seems suspicious to you, report it to the cyber police – @stopdrugsbot (BRAMA chatbot on Telegram). Experts will check it out. If it turns out to be hostile, they will make every effort to block it.
Watch the video tutorial on how to use the tool 👉
Important information for the media, bloggers and all citizens who photograph or write about the war and the army
What is strictly banned for the media to cover in wartime:
- Names of units and subdivisions, as well as their location
- Number of military personnel in units and subdivisions
- Number of weapons and equipment, their condition and storage location
- Conventional designations of objects
Any information about:
- Operations that are being conducted or planned
- The security and defence system of military units
- Available protection of the military such as: weapons and equipment (except visible or obviously distinct)
- Procedures for engaging forces (military) and means (weapons)
- Collection of intelligence data
- Movement and deployment of troops (names, numbers, routes)
- Military units and their tactics, methods of action
- Unique operations and how they are performed
- Effectiveness of enemy electronic warfare
- Postponed or cancelled operations
- Missing or downed aircraft, ship, and search and rescue operations
- Plans for the safety of our troops (disinformation, disguise, countermeasures)
- Conducted or planned information and psychological operations
- Propaganda or justification of Russia’s large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine
Don’t post on social media:
- The consequences of enemy missiles or shells hits or the moments of their flight in the sky. This will help the enemy to correct their fire.
- Time and place of “hits” (neither in publications nor in comments).
- Data on the work of Ukrainian air defence.
- Photos showing the numbers, special markings and markings on the destroyed or downed enemy equipment.
- Unverified information about casualties or deaths.
