Dpty Interior Minister Timchenko: no leakage of military info from official surveillance cameras
There was no leakage of military information from official surveillance cameras, which are under the administration of the National Police of Ukraine, says Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Leonid Timchenko.
"There were no facts of leakage of information concerning military operations, in particular, on the passage of military equipment, from official sources. I am referring to information from the official CCTV cameras of the National Police, a system on highways that records violations of road safety," Timchenko said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
The Deputy Interior Minister noted that information security measures are constantly being carried out in the Police. "Employees are brought to various types of responsibility, they are denied access if there is a suspicion that there may be a leak of information, or such a leak has already occurred," Timchenko said.
According to the deputy minister, every citizen is a potential operator and distributor of information, and the state has a mechanism for holding accountable "operators" of sensitive information.
"All bloggers, ordinary citizens, who filmed the work of air defense, missile arrivals at critical infrastructure facilities and posted it on social networks or restrained it, were identified and brought to justice," Timchenko drew attention.
He also explained that only government agencies and law enforcement agencies decide what information can be published in war conditions.
"If the information is sensitive, it is published from the relevant official sources. Publishing under anonymous nicknames complicates the identification of the author of the content, but law enforcement officers today have enough tools to establish who exactly did it," Timchenko added.