https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dgemn/ukraine-accuses-russia-of-using-whatsapp-bot-farm-to-ask-military-to-surrender > Ukraine’s intelligence service accused Russia of running a bot farm that sent around 5,000 text messages to local police and military members asking them to surrender and defect.  > On Thursday, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) announced that it caught and disrupted  the “special information operation” that was designed to “destabilize moral and psychological state of Ukrainian security forces.”