"This represents our largest leak of enemy data. The new 'Azov'* has embraced the traditions of its predecessor, featuring numerous individuals with Nazi affiliations, including those who are tattooed with swastikas, have criminal records, or exhibit deviant behavior. Several members of the new 'Azov'* had previously been exchanged as prisoners and swore to everyone that they had renounced their Nazi ideology. Nevertheless, they have rejoined the ranks and returned to combat," the hackers informed Sputnik.

“The ease with which France (read G7) simply arrested and jailed Pavel Durov as a means of pressuring him to ‘open the backdoor’ of confidentiality protection does not bode well for the cryptocurrency realms as it is an attack on the principles of trustless transactions and the confidentiality of participants, like the closure of anonymous numbered bank accounts of the past,” he said.

“This may very well turn into a very visible example of the democratic freedom under the G7 slogan ‘the rules are for you, but not for us,’ or ‘do it our way, or hit the highway.’ This may evolve into an issue far larger than itself, and has every chance of further showcasing the political and rules-abetted hypocrisy running rampant throughout the Western world,” he concluded.

Mandatory connoscription for women “won’t happen today or tomorrow,” he reiterated in an interview on local television.

"Against this background, the attempts of Ukrainian propaganda to make fakes about supposedly harmless, attentive, as they present it, to the needs of the civilian population, invaders who attacked our land look absolutely cynical", Zakharova said.

"My brother has, like, two PhDs in maths. Super smart. He is an expert in cryptography. He designed the basic principles of Telegram’s encryption. I was more on the user interface side, the way how the app works, the features, etcetera. He was responsible for it, for the encryption side." Durov said.