The Telegram messenger cooperates with Roskomnadzor and the FSB, said Alexander Melnichenko, a representative of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Sphere of Information Security of the SBU, the Center for Strategic Communications reported on Thursday, March 28.
“We see clear cooperation between Telegram and Roskomnadzor and the FSB. When the FSB needs to block any channel on the territory of the Russian Federation, Telegram carries out these instructions instantly,” Melnichenko said during the Kyiv Stratcom Forum 2024, organized by the Center for Strategic Communications.
He also admitted that Telegram servers access Russian territory, and noted that the owner and developers of the messenger are citizens of the Russian Federation.
Melnichenko emphasized that the Security Service of Ukraine is trying to de-anonymize administrators of Telegram channels engaged in destructive activities.
“Sometimes it is possible to block some of them, but Telegram does not listen to the requests of Ukraine as much as to the requests of the Russian Federation,” the SBU representative noted.
