{
  "id": 14874372,
  "title": "Investigation: How scammers exploit Ukraine’s occupation to deceive foreign men",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/investigation-how-scammers-exploit-ukraines-occupation-to-deceive",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-16T05:00:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Kyiv Independent",
    "slug": "kyiv-independent",
    "url": "https://kyivindependent.com/investigation-how-scammers-exploit-ukraines-occupation-to-deceive-foreign-men-2/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Since 2022, the non-profit Helping to Leave has received thousands of requests to rescue people from Russian-occupied territories. Some of those requests were to rescue women who may have never existed at all. The charity has helped thousands of people flee occupied areas, and its team was used to urgent pleas for evacuation. But over time, a different kind of request began arriving. Foreign men…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}