Rasa Telegram Bot in telegram group - incorrect intents while talking to a bot

Hello there

I’ve set up a telegram bot and successfully connected it to my local Rasa instance. While I’m talking to the bot directly everything goes fine, Rasa successfully parses my messages I’m sending to the bot and it answers correctly.

But I’ve run into a strange issue when I’m creating a Telegram group and adding my bot there.

When I’m trying to do the same as in the direct bot chat Rasa fails and answers none.

For example when I send a message to my bot in Telegram group using, for example

/hello

Rasa fails to parse an intent and says in the logs that

2021-03-19 23:50:27 DEBUG    rasa.core.processor  - Received user message '/hello' with intent '{'name': 'hello', 'confidence': 1.0}' and entities '[]'

But I just said “hello” and I was sure it would be routed to a greet intent!

Also at the same time when I send a message like

/greet

Rasa parses in correctly and is routing me to the greet intent and the bot answers me.

2021-03-19 23:51:30 DEBUG    rasa.core.processor  - Received user message '/greet' with intent '{'name': 'greet', 'confidence': 1.0}' and entities '[]'

Has anyone already faced such an issue and what could be the steps to correct it?

Thanks!