Ukrainian geeks who went to war: The unlikely band of videogamers who run top secret ‘Griselda’ unit linked to the death of three Russian generals and targeted hundreds of soldiers
Ukrainian nerds who went to war: The unlikely group of video gamers running the top-secret ‘Griselda’ unit linked to the deaths of three Russian generals and targeting hundreds of soldiers
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These are the video game developers who have become an unlikely – but deadly – part of Ukraine‘s war effort.
In the latest episode of their popular YouTube series The Mail’s Richard Pendlebury and Jamie Wiseman were given exclusive access to an automated intelligence operation that had its roots in Ukraine’s vibrant pre-war computer coding community.
The military intelligence revolution, codenamed Griselda, is somewhat sloppily based Kiev flat filled with fantasy board games.
From here, the operators sifting through vast amounts of data to identify Russian positions and movements. Griselda claimed the lives of hundreds of enemy soldiers and, reportedly, three army generals.
The elite team of academics, jerks and puzzle solvers who oversee it have drawn comparisons to the codebreakers of Bletchley Park during WWII.
Click here to watch the exclusive full report on the Daily Mail’s YouTube channel.