— 🇷🇺/🇸🇾 NEW: Russia has started pulling back significant military equipment and troops from Syria, as reported by U.S. officials to CNN
It remains uncertain whether this withdrawal will be permanent and what will happen to Russia’s Hmeimim airbase in Latakia and the Tartus port facility.
— 🇷🇺/🇸🇾 NEW: Russia has started pulling back significant military equipment and troops from Syria, as reported by U.S. officials to CNN
It remains uncertain whether this withdrawal will be permanent and what will happen to Russia’s Hmeimim airbase in Latakia and the Tartus port facility.
But Kliuchnikov, the Ukranian now in France, said he will use Signal or WhatsApp for sensitive conversations, but questions around privacy on Telegram do not give him pause when it comes to sharing information about the war. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried.
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