Published December 18,2023
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Ukraine‘s safety service mentioned on Sunday it had launched a felony probe beneath a regulation on info gathering after a “technical device” was present in an workplace that might have been used sooner or later by Commander in Chief Valery Zaluzhnyi.
The safety service mentioned on the Telegram messaging app that an investigation had been opened beneath an article in Ukraine’s felony code on “unlawful acquisition, sale, or use of special technical means for obtaining information”.
It added that the system — initially characterised as a bug by native media — was thought-about beneath preliminary info to be “in a non-operational state”, and no means of data storage or distant transmission of audio recordings have been discovered.
“We emphasise that the device was found not directly in Valery Zaluzhnyi’s office but in one of the premises that could have been used by him in the future for work,” the service mentioned.
“The Security Service of Ukraine is taking all legally prescribed measures to investigate this offence,” it added.
Zaluzhnyi has been talked about amongst potential targets for a reshuffle in high army ranks beneath a cooling in relations with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has disagreed together with his view of the conduct of the 21-month-old battle in opposition to Russia.
In an essay printed final month in The Economist, Zaluzhnyi wrote that the battle was getting into a stage of attrition that might profit Moscow and permit it to rebuild its army energy.
The president has disagreed with any notion the battle was topic to a stalemate.
Source: www.anews.com.tr