Security News > 2022 > December > Ukraine Intercepting Russian Soldiers’ Cell Phone Calls

"You still have a lot of soldiers bringing cellphones to the frontline who want to talk to their families and they are either being intercepted as they go through a Ukrainian telecommunications provider or intercepted over the air," said Alperovitch.

"That doesn't pose too much difficulty for the Ukrainian security services."

"Security has always been a mess, both in the army and among defence officials," the source said.

In 2013 they tried to get all the staff at the ministry of defence to replace our iPhones with Russian-made Yoto smartphones."

This isn't a new problem and it isn't a Russian problem.

Here's a more general article on the problem from 2020..

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