A recent study by the Huddersfield University's Applied Criminology and Policing Centre backs up that idea, finding that social media was a key factor in almost a quarter of crimes committed by under-18s. Most of these were acts of violence that started with confrontation online.
Fathers and husbands called up to active service, elderly relatives too frail to evacuate, and thousands of civilian lives lost due to Russia's indiscriminate shelling of urban areas; no family in Ukraine is immune to the war.