Inside Russia-Outside Russia is a news insight by the Federation of Russian embassy in Bangladesh on 26.02.2025
Dhaka February 26 2025:
INSIDE RUSSIA
Russian auto-giant cites billion dollar Renault re-entry price tag
Renault will have to reimburse Russian investments of $1.3 billion to buy back the share it sold for 1 ruble, Avtovaz CEO says
Renault will have to compensate Russian carmaker AVTOVAZ up to $1.3 billion if it wishes to re-acquire its former business and re-enter the market, having previously quit the country, CEO Maxim Sokolov said on Tuesday.
In 2022, AVTOVAZ purchased Renault’s share in the joint enterprise for a symbolic sum of 1 ruble with an option to return within six years.
Renault joined other foreign corporations that succumbed to international pressure and left Russia in the wake of the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.
A return is only possible if the French automaker reimburses the investments made in its absence to develop the business, Sokolov told journalists, specifying that they would top 112 billion rubles ($1.3 billion) in 2023-2025.
“They [the investments] exceed the average annual investment volumes that were made by the previous shareholder, Renault, in the early 2020s,” the top executive said.
“Therefore, it’s clear that these investments will need to be reimbursed upon return,” he added, stressing that the price of return wouldn’t equal the price of exit.
Renault sold its 100% stake in Renault Russia and its 68% stake in Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ in 2022. Renault’s assets were later transferred to Russian state ownership.
In November 2022, Russia launched production of an updated version of the iconic Soviet-era car brand Moskvich at Renault’s factory in Moscow, which used to produce cars under the Renault and Nissan brands.
The car giant reported a write-down of over $2 billion as a result of the withdrawal from its second-biggest market.
OUTSIDE RUSSIA
Senior Russian diplomat hails UN organization for fighting colonialism
“In his speech, Sergey Vershinin noted the Group’s major role in upholding the UN Charter principles in their entirety and interconnection,” the Russian foreign ministry said
MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin has hailed the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations for its efforts in fighting colonialism, the Russian foreign ministry said.
“In his speech, Sergey Vershinin noted the Group’s major role in upholding the UN Charter principles in their entirety and interconnection. He hailed its efforts on the anti-colonial track, pointing to the topicality of the resolution on the Eradication of Colonialism in All Its Forms and Manifestations that was initiated by the Group and passed by the UN General Assembly on December 4, 2024,” it said.
According to the ministry, participants in the discussion exchanged views on the United Nations’ 80th anniversary that is marked in 2025 and discussed ways of strengthening multilaterism, raising the organization’s credibility and effectiveness, fighting neocolonialism, and the Middle East settlement.
The meeting was held on the sidelines of the Conference on Disarmament High Level Segment and the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council.
Apart from that, Vershinin met with Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva Tatiana Valovaya to discuss current issues of and prospects for further development between Russian and Geneva-based UN agencies.
Russia, Indonesia eyeing joint construction of nuclear, solar plants
Russian companies are ready to offer technologies of emergency control of energy systems and supply equipment for power generation, the ministry noted
MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. Russia and Indonesia are considering an opportunity of implementing joint energy projects, the Russian Ministry of Energy said after the visit of the Russian delegation headed by Deputy Minister Roman Marshavin to Indonesia.
“Joint projects are being reviewed in the sphere of nuclear and renewable power, including construction of nuclear and solar power plants, and the upgrade of hydropower plants,” the ministry said.
Russian companies are ready to offer technologies of emergency control of energy systems and supply equipment for power generation, the ministry added.
Russia concerned over growing confrontation within UN Human Rights Council
The sides also stressed the need for constructive, equal and mutually respectful cooperation on pressing issues of human rights advocacy
MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin met with President of the UN Human Rights Council Jurg Lauber to express Russia’s concern over growing politicization and confrontation within the Council.
“The sides exchanged views on a range of issues concerning the current 58th session of the Human Rights Council and the general operation of this leading human rights body within the UN system. The Russian side expressed concern over increasing levels of politicization and confrontation within the Council, and attempts by one group of countries to use it as an instrument to achieve their geopolitical goals,” the Russian foreign ministry said.
The sides also stressed the need for constructive, equal and mutually respectful cooperation on pressing issues of human rights advocacy. “It is essential to work together to ensure that human rights serve as a unifying factor among nations, fostering trust and mutual respect in international relations,” the ministry added.
Lavrov arrives in Qatar on visit
Earlier, the minister traveled to Turkey and Iran
DOHA, February 25. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in the capital of Qatar on a visit, as his plane landed at the Doha airport, according to a TASS reporter.
Earlier, the minister traveled to Turkey and Iran.
Lavrov previously visited Qatar in December last year. He was received by Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, held talks with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and participated in the 22nd Doha Forum.
Lavrov conveys Putin’s ‘great greeting’ to Iran’s president at meeting in Tehran
In response, the Iranian president asked Lavrov to send his greetings to Putin as well
TEHERAN, February 25. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has conveyed a “great greeting” from President Vladimir Putin to Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, according to a TASS correspondent.
Earlier, Lavrov held talks with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi.
“You have a huge greeting from President Putin,” Lavrov stated. In response, the Iranian president asked Lavrov to send his greetings to Putin as well. “Certainly,” Lavrov replied with a smile. “He said that the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership that you signed with him will be fully implemented. We began fulfilling it today.”
Russia expects construction of Rasht-Astara railroad to start soon — Lavrov
“The Rasht-Astara segment will allow making a very important step, being a necessary element for the full-fledged launch of the North-South international transport corridor,” the minister noted
TEHRAN, February 25. /TASS/. Moscow expects the construction of the Rasht-Astara railroad section of the North-South international transport corridor to start in the near future, for which an export loan will be extended, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference following talks with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.
“We expressed satisfaction with the fact that the Iranian friends are taking all steps that should be taken before the start of the construction of the Rasht-Astara railroad. We expect the construction to start in the near future,” he said, adding that “for this purpose a Russian export loan will be extended.”
“The Rasht-Astara segment will allow making a very important step, being a necessary element for the full-fledged launch of the North-South international transport corridor,” the minister noted.
On May 17, 2023, Russia and Iran signed an agreement to jointly build the Rasht-Astara railroad segment, which will make it possible to connect overland sections of the North-South international transport corridor and boost the economic efficiency of the Trans-Caspian route. Earlier reports said that Russia would extend a 1.3 bln euro sovereign loan to implement the project, with its total cost estimated at 1.6 bln euro.
An intergovernmental agreement on the creation of the multimodal transport corridor North-South spanning 7,200 km was signed by Russia, India and Iran in 2000. Later, the number of participants rose to 14. The project is aimed at attracting transit of cargo flows from India, Iran and the Persian Gulf countries through Russian territory to Europe.
SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION IN UKRAINE
Ukraine to last just ‘a few months’ on battlefield without US support — report
After President Donald Trump took office as head of state, leaders in Kiev have been presented with a “brutal reckoning: that the United States can no longer be counted on as a supporter, and may even be an adversary,” The New York Times said
NEW YORK, February 25. /TASS/. Ukraine will probably last no more than a few month on the battlefield if the US cuts off its aid, The New York Times reported.
“If American support dries up, Kiev could hold out on the battlefield as long as it can – which could be only a few months,” the newspaper said.
After President Trump took office as president, leaders in Kiev have been presented with a “brutal reckoning: that the United States can no longer be counted on as a supporter, and may even be an adversary,” according to the report.
“As the war enters its fourth year, that enmity has prompted Kiev to reassess what leverage, if any, it still holds over America’s policy in Ukraine and to explore alternative options to safeguard its interests. There are few of them, and none are ideal,” the New York Times wrote.
The newspaper previously reported that the US and Ukraine were close to concluding an agreement that gives Washington a share in Kiev’s revenues from natural resources but does not guarantee Ukraine’s security. According to the NYT, Vladimir Zelensky could come to the US to sign the deal this or next week. In early February, US President Donald Trump said Washington was interested in obtaining rare-earth metals from Ukraine.
Kursk offensive, Donbass advance and massive rear strikes: Last week in Russia-Ukraine conflict
The Russian military has liberated multiple new settlements in Donbass, while continuing the advance in Kursk Region
The past week in the Russia-Ukraine conflict has seen intensive fighting along the front line, with active hostilities continuing in the southwest of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), in the north of Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), as well as in Kursk Region, where the country’s troops made new important gains against Kiev’s invasion force.
In the north of Donbass, the Russian military liberated the village of Yampolovka, a small settlement located some 35km to the northwest of the city of Severodonetsk. The city was captured by Moscow’s forces early into the conflict, yet the advance in the area got long stalled, devolving into stationary warfare.
Apart from that, Moscow’s forces seized control of the village of Figolevo, located in Ukraine’s Kharkov Region a short way from the border with the LPR. The village is located beyond the Oskol River, a waterway running roughly along the border some 20km into Ukrainian territory. While the local front line has remained largely static since late 2022, the fighting picked up in recent months, with the Russian forces gaining control of multiple locations in the area and reaching Oskol at several points.
Donbass offensive goes on
The main events continued to unfold in the southwest of the DPR, with the Russian forces continuing to advance on the flanks of the city of Pokrovsk (also known as Krasnoarmeysk), the largest settlement remaining under Ukrainian control in the area.
This week, Moscow’s forces seized control of Berezovka, a small village located near a major road, running from Pokrovsk to Konstantinovka, an industrial city in central Donbass and a major logistics hub used by Kiev’s military. Earlier this year, the Russian troops reached the village of Udachnoye to the southwest of Pokrovsk, severing the road in the area as well and disrupting the Ukrainian military’s logistics.
Active hostilities have also continued to the west of Kurakhovo, a town stretching along the southern bank of the eponymous reservoir and located some 30 km to the south of Pokrovsk. The town, once a heavily fortified stronghold and a major logistics hub used by Kiev’s forces, was liberated by the Russian military early in January.
This week, Moscow’s forces advanced onto a narrow pocket stretching for about 8km to the east of the Ukrainian-controlled village of Konstantinopol, located some 15km to the west of Kurakhovo.
The village of Ulakly was roughly in the middle of the pocket, with the Russian forces assaulting it from the south and breaching Ukrainian defenses in the area. The advance resulted in Kiev’s troops getting cut off the easternmost part of the pocket, reportedly fleeing in disarray and sustaining heavy casualties during their hasty retreat.
The Russian forces have also reportedly reached the southern outskirts of Konstantinopol, as well as likely got in full control of Ulakly over the week. On Friday, a video purporting to show Moscow’s forces erecting the country’s flag in the heavily damaged village emerged online. However, the liberation of the village has not been officially announced by the Russian Defense Ministry yet.
Kursk pocket continues to shrink
The Russian military has continued its effort to dislodge Kiev’s forces from the border areas of Kursk Region, which Ukraine invaded in early August last year. The hostility continued in the vicinity of the town of Sudzha, the largest settlement seized by the Ukrainian troops in the area, as well as smaller villages in its vicinity.
This week, the Russian military liberated the village of Sverdlikovo, located some 10km northwest of Sudzha. The village has been used by Kiev’s military as a logistics hub, with a minor crossborder road running through it. The village was also an important defensive position, given its position on the banks of the Loknya River, a small swampy waterway, which has been a natural obstacle for the advancing Russian forces.
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the country’s forces, namely soldiers with the 810th Marines Brigade “crossed the border between the Russian Federation and Ukraine and entered the enemy territory” in Ukraine’s Sumy Region. While the president’s announcement corresponded with the liberation of Sverdlikovo, Putin did not elaborate on where exactly the forces crossed the border.
The loss of Sverdlikovo further aggravated the situation for the Ukrainian invasion force, given the Kiev-held pocket now remains reliant on a single supply route – a major crossborder road leading to Sudzha. The road got under Russia’s fire control earlier this year when the country’s forces approached the town from the southeast. The Ukrainian military tried to push back Moscow’s troops, launching multiple attacks on the villages of Ulanok and Cherkasskaya Konopelka early in February. The Ukrainian forces sustained heavy casualties during the attacks, failing to make any tangible gains in the area.
According to the latest estimates by the Russian military estimates, Ukrainian forces suffered extremely heavy losses during the incursion of Kursk. More than 62,200 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and wounded in the area, with more than 370 tanks, 279 infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), 229 armored personnel carriers (APC), and nearly 2,000 other armored vehicles destroyed or captured.
Rear strikes
The Russian military has continued its effort to find and destroy high-value assets in Ukraine’s near rear, targeting amassed troops, staging areas and logistics hubs with various medium-range weaponry, incl;uding ballistic missiles.
On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said it launched a missile strike against a staging point of the 27th Reactive artillery brigade, identified near the village of Boromlya in Ukraine’s Sumy Region. Surveillance drone footage released by the Russian military shows multiple military vehicles poorly concealed in a wooded area. At least two Olkha-M multiple rocket launchers, a Ukrainian system based on the Soviet-era BM-30 Smerch, were identified at the site.
The staging area was targeted by a single ballistic missile, apparently rigged for air burst, and fired by an Iskander-M launcher. While the extent of damage sustained by the hardware was not immediately known, Ukrainian troops were seen evacuating their wounded from the site after the strike, footage suggests.
A similar strike reportedly targeted a staging point on the outskirts of the city of Sumy itself, with a Ukrainian unit’s accommodation discovered on the premises of a defunct recreation camp for children. Thermal drone footage circulating online shows multiple military vehicles tightly parked at the location, with a single ballistic missile hitting it shortly after.
Multiple fires were observed at the site after the strike, with multiple vehicles reportedly destroyed and dozens of Ukrainian servicemen killed or wounded.
Lancet-family drones
The past week has seen continuing active use of the Lancet-family drones, with multiple new videos surfacing online showing Russian loitering munitions in action. The UAVs of the type have seen increasingly intensive use over the course of the conflict, serving as one of the key medium-range tools in Moscow’s arsenal to hunt down Ukrainian high-value assets, such as mobile artillery or anti-aircraft systems.
A fresh video reportedly taken in the Kursk Region border area, shows Lancet drones attacking two Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) launchers. The short-to-medium-range anti-aircraft system is seen deployed in an open field by a wooded area, where it presumably has been concealed while offline, with multiple tracks seen in the snow. Both launchers end up hit by Lancet loitering munitions, with a lone Ukrainian serviceman apparently accessing damage sustained by one of them, surveillance drone footage shows.
Thermal drone footage, taken in the village of Verkhnaya Syrovatka in Ukraine’s Sumy Region, shows rare use of a Lancet-family drone in an installation strike. The loitering munition hit an agriculture hangar on the outskirts of the village, used to stockpile ammunition. The strike caused a massive secondary blast at the site, with an apparent Ukrainian evacuation team seen arriving to inspect the blazing ruins.
A video taken by a surveillance drone shows a Ukrainian BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher tracked from its hiding spot to its firing position. The vehicle is seen firing its rockets from the side of a busy road, with multiple presumably civilian vehicles seen passing by. Such tactic has been a common practice for Kiev’s troops, enabling mobile artillery units to blend with civilian traffic to escape potential retaliation as well as to stay close to hard-surface roads for enhanced mobility.
The maneuver, however, did not save the BM-21, as it got hit by a Lancet before being able to leave the firing position. The launcher caught fire and was destroyed, footage suggests.
INSIGHTS
Welcome to Ukraine’s secret offensive: They scam, bankrupt, and drive Russian civilians to suicide
Fraudsters from the “world leader in the phone scamming industry” have stolen $3 billion from Russians in the last year
Over half of all Russians have received unwanted calls from unknown numbers at least once. Using various tactics, phone scammers trick individuals into sending them money or committing illegal acts. Most of these calls originate from Ukraine, where thousands of call centers operate with one goal – to extract large sums of money from unsuspecting victims.
In just one year, these criminals are reported to have stolen hundreds of billions of rubles from Russian citizens, making thousands of calls each day. Below, we explore Ukraine’s phone scamming industry and who can become a victim.
Millions of calls per day
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described phone scams as a key tactic employed by the Kiev regime against Russia, suggesting it has become a state policy. “This is often done simply by state bodies or bodies or structures that are under Ukrainian state control, this is definitely one of the lines of attack against Russia,” he said.
Each day, scammers make up to eight million phone calls to Russian numbers. And considering new communication channels like messaging apps, this number nearly doubles, reaching approximately 15 million attempted scam calls daily, the deputy chairman of the executive board of Sberbank, Stanislav Kuznetsov, said during the Ural Forum on Cybersecurity in Finance in February 2024.
The previous year, he noted that up to 95% of scam calls to Russia originated from Ukraine, with the city of Dnepropetrovsk (called Dnepr, for short) identified as the epicenter of such criminal activity. “Dnepropetrovsk had over 1,100 call centers; now about 150 are operational, but across Ukraine, we still track around 800 to 900 call centers,” he said.
Interestingly, the scripts used by these scammers are not created in Ukraine but rather in “more western parts of Europe,” said Vladimir Komlev, CEO of the Russian National Payment Card System. He emphasized that the scammers leverage any relevant news story in Russia to deceive people. In the past years, the technological sophistication of these call centers, their tactics, and their scale of operations have grown significantly.
In 2024, scammers stole 250-300 billion rubles ($2.9-3.5 billion) from Russians, Kuznetsov said.
A young employee in a comfortable office
The Economist has identified Ukraine as the “world leader in the phone scamming industry.”
According to Sberbank, a significant portion of the Ukrainian population under the age of 35 is involved in phone scams. We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of people, each of whom can earn around $3,000 a month.
Job seekers are lured with attractive benefits: a comfortable office in a nice location with good infrastructure (shops, cafes, public transport), salaries starting at $1,000, and even housing provided for out-of-town employees. The work schedule is standard – Monday to Friday from 8:45am to 6:00pm, with an hour-long lunch break and two coffee breaks.
Call centers often exploit patriotic sentiments among potential employees, posting job listings with questions like, “Do you want to help your country undermine the economy of the aggressor nation?” However, most of the money earned this way doesn’t benefit Ukraine’s struggling economy; instead, it’s funneled into offshore accounts or cryptocurrencies to evade taxes.
One Ukrainian scammer revealed that he makes about 3,000 calls a day. Each employee at these call centers can steal about one million rubles (around $11,500) per day from victims. “In Dnepr, there are more phone scamming offices than there are apartments in Moscow. They make about 3,000 calls per day, if not more. One office has over 200 people, and each person rakes in a nice sum — around a million rubles daily,” said a scammer from Dnepr whose story was shared by the Telegram channel SHOT.
Another employee at such a call center turned out to be a minor from the city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk region, who moved to Dnepr. She calls potential victims “on behalf of” the police, advising them to transfer their money to a supposedly safe account. According to her, law enforcement officials themselves protect this scheme, so the risk of being prosecuted is quite low. “No one will find out. Every other person in Dnepr works in an office [like that],” she said.
She believes there’s no ceiling on earnings, with some individuals making enough in a month to buy an apartment or a car. She personally earns around $400 a week.
“I am a resident of another state. Where I live, according to our laws, I am doing a good deed,” they emphasize.
Scammers take money and push people to commit crimes
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has noted that scammers typically initiate conversations with victims by employing standard tactics. They claim there have been suspicious transactions from the victim’s bank account, attempts to take out loans in their name, or request people to help law enforcement catch criminals. After that, they coerce individuals into transferring money to them.
Sberbank notes that today’s deception schemes are multi-layered and extended over a certain period of time. Scammers may maintain contact with their victims for several days, often returning to exploit them again.
Frequently, these criminals don’t just steal money; they also pressure victims into committing crimes. People might be encouraged to retaliate against the scammers, assist the police in catching them, or are even threatened that their loved ones will be harmed. Ultimately, this leads to demands to carry out attacks on military, transportation, or banking facilities.
Such schemes became prevalent in the summer of 2023. “This suggests that nearly all of the phone scammers targeting Russians operate from Ukraine and follow the same orders,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs pointed out. According to the Telegram channel Mash, just in the first week of August, Russians attempted to set fire to military enlistment offices 31 times.
Typically, those arrested for such acts are middle-aged women or elderly individuals. During questioning, they claimed to be acting at the request of FSB, Ministry of Internal Affairs, or Central Bank officials. “Most of their victims are elderly people, who are seen by foreign criminals as ‘expendable resources’ for creating information triggers,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs explained.
The schemes are constantly evolving
The strategies employed by Ukrainian scammers to trick Russians are constantly evolving. According to Mash, in one of the latest variations, they transfer money to Russian citizens. In the accompanying message, they express gratitude for alleged assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). They then take screenshots of the transfer notifications and threaten to report the recipients to the FSB, warning them of potential criminal charges for providing financial support to the Ukrainian military.
Another tactic used by these criminals is referred to as “rectorate.” It was detailed by an RT correspondent who infiltrated the scammers’ organization posing as a new employee. This scheme unfolds in several stages: first, they gather information about the potential victim; then, they message and call the victim. The scammer impersonates the director of the victim’s organization and claims there are ongoing audits. The goal is to frighten the victim with severe consequences, such as losing their job, facing large fines, being charged with a crime, or even imprisonment. After successfully navigating these steps, the final stage involves extracting funds. Each step is handled by a different individual.
When choosing their victim, the scammers prioritize older people, who are easier to deceive, and the management staff of various organizations.
Crimes with victims
It’s a mistake to classify such fraud as merely “non-violent crime” – often, the consequences can be tragic. At the end of last year, a first-year student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology took his own life after falling victim to Ukrainian scammers. The young man was informed that he owed money on multiple loans, faced psychological pressure, received threats against his family, and was slandered as being involved in extremist activities.
“Starting around noon, my son was constantly communicating with and responding to calls from unknown individuals. At 5:55pm, he left our home where he was spending the weekend with me and my daughter, and shortly after, his phone was switched off,” his mother related.
Last year, a 49-year-old man from Noginsk attempted suicide after becoming a victim of phone scammers. It turned out that all the money from his accounts had been transferred to unidentified recipients. A relative found him injured in his home and quickly took him to the hospital, where doctors managed to save his life.
‘They have skilled psychologists’
A source from Ukraine’s law enforcement told The Economist that individuals working in these call centers can professionally manipulate people. “They have skilled psychologists who can manipulate the vulnerable,” the source stated.
To gain the trust of their victims, scammers employ various psychological tactics, such as repeatedly addressing the person by name and using the “Three Yes Rule” – asking consecutive questions that the individual cannot help but agree with, and then posing a crucial question leading the victim to respond affirmatively out of habit.
“It’s like hypnosis. Those most susceptible are often individuals with uncritical thinking or mental health issues. They are easily led, especially when the scammer skillfully manipulates them at a neurophysiological level – through a soothing voice and gentle speech,” psychotherapist Georgy Amusin told.
Scammers frequently utilize so-called Ericksonian hypnosis, developed by American psychiatrist Milton Erickson. The victim is overwhelmed with unexpected information: bombarded with accusations of serious wrongdoing, criminal activity and threats, along with legal jargon and unfamiliar terms. To enhance credibility, the virtual assailant may provide a title, full name, and ID number. This can induce a trance-like state in the victim, making them easier to manipulate.
“The scammer manages to essentially ‘enter’ the victim’s mind, bypassing their critical thinking,” psychotherapist Mikhail Baryshev said. “During the conversation, they bombard the victim with facts and figures, making absurd claims like stating that the conversation is ‘being held under protocol’.”
Combating fraud
As the scale of incidents continues to grow in Russia, there is an increasing demand for government measures to protect people. At the beginning of February, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government, along with the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to develop additional strategies to block phone calls originating from Ukraine and other unfriendly countries that are used for criminal purposes.
The president also called for proposals to enhance the identification process for phone numbers utilized by public authorities and organizations when interacting with Russian citizens. This includes displaying information about phone numbers associated with government bodies on user devices.
