Police scout for pro-Russian collaborators in eastern Ukraine

Officers in Donetsk say spies pass on coordinates or photographs of targets via Telegram in exchange for cash

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Oleksandr Malish, the patrol police chief for the cities of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk in the Donetsk region, is reluctant to call people suspected of collaborating with Russia Ukrainians.

I cannot even call these people Ukrainians, even though they have Ukrainian passports and were born here and lived here all their lives," said Malish. These are not professional spies who were trained in Moscow and sent here."