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There is a war going on in Europe right now. Real war with tanks, bombs and rockets, often hitting hospitals in Kyiv for some weird reason. This arrest put russians in a panic mode. Did you know russian army is actually using Telegram for coordinating strikes, and Discord for FPVs? https://youchu.be/watch?v=mwtbTuLZXWw

You know something is up when russians, and Snowden (or his handler), are calling the arrest of French citizen in France "taking hostages".

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ukrainians uses telegram just as much. It's a popular app in eastern europe and asia.

This is irrelevant. The Russians can just switch to Signal, or run their own instance of Telegram trivially.

An unrelated point on that note -

The Russian army is trying to restrict phones amongst their troops right now, from what I can tell. The soldiers who need telegram the most to handle their own logistics and strategy, because that is horrificly a thing, need telegram.

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