Chief of the National Police of Ukraine Serhiy Kniaziev says Ukrainian cyber police have blocked over 1,000 pro-suicide social media groups.
"We've blocked more than a thousand pro-suicide social media groups, and this problem has almost disappeared as of today," Kniaziev said at a press conference in Kyiv on December 26.
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As was reported, the Blue Whale suicide game is believed to be a social media group which is encouraging people to kill themselves. A group administrator assigned daily tasks to group members, which they had to complete over 50 days, for example, self-harming, watching horror movies and waking up at unusual hours, but these gradually got more extreme.