Participants of the roundtable dedicated to Ukrainian journalism, organized at the initiative of the Committee on Freedom of Expression of the Verkhovna Rada, believe that the work of the Telegram messenger should be banned in Ukraine and it is necessary to look for ways to do this. This. This was reported by TASS.
Deputy Minister of European Integration of Ukraine Taras Shevchenko, member of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine Alexander Burmagin and head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine Sergei Tomilenko attended the meeting.
The parliament’s broadcast states that roundtable participants discussed the “threat to national security of the Telegram social network.” They talked about the need to “look for ways to ban their activities in Ukraine.”
Before that, Andrey Yuzov, representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine named Telegram messenger is a threat to the security of the country.
According to Yuzov, the messenger contains a number of threats to the information security of Ukraine. He did not specify his words.
Previous Telegram users warned about possible cyber attacks on personal data.