Ukraine to investigate use of russian camera software in surveillance systems - Interior Minister
Kyiv • UNN
Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko assured that surveillance camera data cannot be made available to other countries and promised a thorough investigation of the Schemes report, which claims that thousands of Russian program cameras are used in Ukraine.
Information from surveillance cameras on Ukrainian roads could not be transferred to other countries, while the "Schemes" investigation that thousands of cameras have been operating in Ukraine for years with software from a Russian manufacturer will be thoroughly checked. This was stated by Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko on the air of the telethon "United News" telethon, UNN reports.
In the Ministry of Internal Affairs, our technical staff clearly say that our information could not get to any server in another country. The system of comprehensive information protection is quite reliable.
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Klymenko also promised that the information that was covered in the journalistic investigation will be thoroughly investigated and studied.
This is a question not only for special services. This is a question to the utilities that installed these cameras. Of course, this is unacceptable, when any camera, even hypothetically, can be connected and transmit information, especially during the war, to any country.
The Interior Minister promised that a comprehensive to check the possible access of Russian special services to data from Ukrainian cameras, will involve representatives of military administrations.
"We have a lot of work ahead of us to verify this information. Once again, technically, together with the relevant technical staff military administrations, to look at this problem again," Klymenko said.
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An investigation by the Schemes project project by Radio Liberty proved that in
Ukraine, thousands of video surveillance cameras were installed and operated by 2022 thousands of video surveillance cameras running on Russian software TRASSIR software , which is associated with the activities of the Russian special services.
The journalists found out that the data from these cameras, before reaching the phone or computer of a Ukrainian consumer, first got to the servers in Moscow.
Cameras with such software were purchased by as state-owned enterprises, including for installation at critical infrastructure facilities, such as the infrastructure, such as the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and private businesses. They were also bought en masse at retail and ordinary Ukrainians for security purposes for their homes.
