Unless there's evidence to the contrary, you 100% should assume that this was an entrapment operation. They are willing to kill people, so fabricating some Russian connection and funneling too-good-to-be-true funds to YouTubers for making videos they were making anyway is expected
Unless there's evidence to the contrary, you 100% should assume that this was an entrapment operation. They are willing to kill people, so fabricating some Russian connection and funneling too-good-to-be-true funds to YouTubers for making videos they were making anyway is expected