Telegram is full of channels posting videos of Ukrainian POWs being killed and their bodies desecrated. Many are run by teenagers.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Telegram has seen the rise of Russian-language channels specializing in graphic footage from the front, including combat killings, executions of prisoners, and the desecration of corpses. The independent outlet iStories examined more than 50 of these channels and identified the individuals behind some of them. They determined that these channels are run mostly not by soldiers, but by civilians — often teenagers. Meduza shares the inv...