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The information war keeps transforming into new methods and means:

Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting the mothers

Ukrainian officials say the use of facial recognition software could help end the brutal war. But some experts call it ‘classic psychological warfare’ that sets a gruesome precedent.

The country’s IT Army, a volunteer force of hackers and activists that takes its direction from the Ukrainian government, says it has used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.

The Ukrainians champion the use of face-scanning software from the U.S. tech firm Clearview AI as a brutal but effective way to stir up dissent inside Russia, discourage other fighters and hasten an end to a devastating war.

But some military and technology analysts worry that the strategy could backfire, inflaming anger over a shock campaign directed at mothers who may be thousands of miles from the drivers of the Kremlin’s war machine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/15/ukraine-facial-recognition-warfare/

Southern port city of Mariupol on brink of falling l ABCNL

ABC's Marcus Moore is in Kyiv with the latest on the war in Ukraine as Russian forces attempt to storm the last holdout for the Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol.

According to some reports Russia has already lost 25% of it's initial invasion force within the first 50 days of fighting....

RUSSIAN COMMANDERS ANGRY AT HOW LONG IT'S TAKING TO CAPTURE MARIUPOL || 2022

Mariupol, a port city in southern Ukraine, has seen the fiercest fighting of the Russian invasion.