🇰🇷🇰🇵 Around 100 killed and 1,000 wounded: South Korean intelligence reports heavy losses among North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia in the Kursk region, per Reuters.
The high casualties are due to their lack of experience in "drone warfare" and unfamiliarity with the open terrain where battles are taking place.
🇰🇷🇰🇵 Around 100 killed and 1,000 wounded: South Korean intelligence reports heavy losses among North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia in the Kursk region, per Reuters.
The high casualties are due to their lack of experience in "drone warfare" and unfamiliarity with the open terrain where battles are taking place.
Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. Telegram does offer end-to-end encrypted communications through Secret Chats, but this is not the default setting. Standard conversations use the MTProto method, enabling server-client encryption but with them stored on the server for ease-of-access. This makes using Telegram across multiple devices simple, but also means that the regular Telegram chats you’re having with folks are not as secure as you may believe.
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