{"id":993706,"date":"2026-02-19T08:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993706"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:43:35","slug":"foreign-spies-can-see-telegram-messages-sent-by-russian-soldiers-ifax-cites-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/foreign-spies-can-see-telegram-messages-sent-by-russian-soldiers-ifax-cites-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign spies can see Telegram messages sent by Russian soldiers, Ifax cites minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign intelligence services \u200bare able \u200bto see messages sent by Russian soldiers \u200busing the Telegram messaging app, Russia&#8217;s minister for digital development Maksud Shadayev said on Wednesday, the Interfax \u200cnews \u2060agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Telegram, \u2060one of the most popular messenger \u200bservices in Russia, is widely used by Russian forces fighting \u200bin Ukraine, but is under pressure from the authorities who have imposed restrictions on \u200bit over what they \u2060say is \u200cits failure to delete extremist \u200bcontent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There \u200bare numerous indications that foreign intelligence \u2060agencies have access to the messenger&#8217;s correspondence and \u200bare using this data against \u200bthe Russian military,&#8221; Shadayev was cited as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign intelligence services \u200bare able \u200bto see messages sent by Russian soldiers \u200busing the Telegram messaging app, Russia&#8217;s minister for digital development Maksud Shadayev said on Wednesday, the Interfax \u200cnews \u2060agency reported. Telegram, \u2060one of the most popular messenger \u200bservices in Russia, is widely used by Russian forces fighting \u200bin Ukraine, but is under pressure from the authorities who have imposed restrictions on \u200bit over what they \u2060say is \u200cits failure to delete extremist \u200bcontent. &#8220;There \u200bare numerous indications that foreign intelligence \u2060agencies have access to the messenger&#8217;s correspondence and \u200bare using this data against \u200bthe Russian military,&#8221; Shadayev was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}