Ukrainian open-source investigators said the new restrictions will make it harder to analyze Russian movements.
The Russian parliament adopted a law Wednesday hiking the penalty for personal use of internet devices by frontline soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
The law classifies possession of devices that allow military personnel to store or send video, photos or geolocation data on the internet as a grave offense, punishable by up to 15 days detention.
It also forbids the transmission of any information that could be used to identify any Russian troops and their whereabouts.
OK, even if Russia’s army was run by mustache-twirling villains who want every russian soldier dead, they also want to win the war, and it’s really hard to win the war if the enemy knows where your soldiers are.
Not every Russian soldier, just the prisoners and foreigners tricked into being in the Russian military who actually might have something the world wants to hear about this war.
Also, Putin doesn’t have a mustache.
Somehow “they could give away their positions” has never been a problem until now, almost two and a half years later.
I’m sure this isn’t the first they they’ve increased restrictions on phones.
Same thing we’ve seen on the Ukraine side, same thing we saw during the Iraq war, same thing we’re seeing in Israel. These things don’t go into place instantly.