Russian military police are checking soldiers’ phones for Telegram — ISW says this deepens Russia’s command and control crisis
Some units are enforcing Telegram deletions while others ignore the orders.
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Russia’s occupiers had a 60-second Telegram kill chain. Their own government just turned it into a hours-long crawl
Before the slowdown, target data from a drone reportedly reached fire teams in under two minutes. Now, without Telegram, it crawls through layers of internal communication — arriving too late to matter, the occupiers themselves admit.
Russian troops crowdfund radios as assault numbers drop by half after Starlink goes dark
Ukraine's General Staff unofficially confirmed that locking unverified Starlink terminals triggered massive communication failures across Russian units.