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.
Due to how this war machine works it was usually solved on a case to case basis by local military authorities, just like many other things you could’ve read about with basement imprisonment, taping to a tree, beatings, without taking it to the court. Like in recruitment centers there’s no law I can recall about having your phone there, but in many videos people recall only dummy button phones were allowed by guards and recently mobilized collectively used them to reach out to their relatives. It’s more of a signal to their families that they’d not be in touch, and it doesn’t carry a big sentence not to angry them too much, while I can bet it’d never be persecuted due to this article.