Ukrainian geeks who went to war: The unlikely group of video games that run a top-secret ‘Griselda’ unit linked to the deaths of three Russian generals and targeted hundreds of soldiers
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This is what video game developers 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 with its roots in Ukraine’s vibrant pre-war computer coding community.
Codenamed Griselda, the revolution in military intelligence is based in slightly sloppy Kiev apartment full of fantasy board games.
From here, its operators sift through reams of data to identify Russian positions and movements. Griselda, it claimed the lives of hundreds of enemy soldiers and, allegedly, three army generals.
The elite team of academics, eggheads and puzzle solvers who oversee it have drawn comparisons with the codebreakers of Bletchley Park during WWII.
Click here to view the exclusive full report on the Daily Mail’s YouTube channel.