🇰🇷🇰🇵 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.
On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government. As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. 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.
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