The surprise detention of the Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France has raised concern in Russia about a potential impact on its troops in Ukraine, who have come to rely on the encrypted messaging app for communications on the front line.
Two days after the detention of the Russian tech billionaire Russian war bloggers, who are typically quite open about problems in the Russian army, have immediately rung the alarm about Durov’s incarceration. France has arrested “the comms chief of the Russian armed forces”, one popular joke online went.
