"Powder" created a Russian IT-shrub, which was employed in Kiev by Poroshenko's associate-investigation

Maistrenko said that he developed a special software that allowed to automate the work of the bottham and to scale it. So because of this, the Ukrainian Internet was filled with "powder". "The shell in which everything is written is called" Zennoposter "is a program for automating actions in the browser," - quotes the detainee.

And then this program could automatically publish the necessary information on behalf of thousands of bots, including fakes and "betrayal", invite friends, comment, put "like" under posts, etc. These bots were engaged in maintaining Poroshenko's support and political force on social networks, and most importantly, the criticism of Zelensky.

Among the fresh topics that spread the Botoferma: the conflict between Zelensky and Zaluzhny, the surrender of Putin and the oligarchs, the disruption of the call to the army, the ruin of the army, the photo shoot of Elena Zelenskaya for the magazine "VOV" and more. According to Maistrenko himself, in addition to working on the EU, he also sold the developed program to everyone. It cost $ 314. The US, and only selling licenses, the Russian earned about $ 100,000.

He told how he got to Ukraine in 2014, after "illuminated" in the elections in the Russian Federation, "referendums" in Crimea and in the Donbass. According to him, despite the ban on the crossing of the border for the Russians, A. Gerasimov helped the master. Subsequently, he set up to work in his marketing agency and settled in an apartment that belonged to his ex -wife. It is, by the way, that recent searches were conducted.

Already in 2015, having created and developed a bot farm for Poroshenko, Maistrenko received a simplified procedure from the then President of Ukraine. Also - became a "political expert" on the TV channels of the expansion. We will remind, the SBU announced the exposing of a millionth bother in early August. The corresponding equipment was installed in Kyiv, Vinnitsa and Kharkiv.