Artem Starosek, head of the Molfar intelligence agency, explained this in a comment to Ukrinform’s correspondent in The Hague.

“360 (8 categories consisting of 45 categories) most popular IOS and Android applications and games were examined. “33 of them turned out to be dangerous because they were created or owned by companies in the Russian Federation or the Republic of Belarus,” said Starosek.

He stated that applications that transfer private user data to the power structures of the Russian Federation, by displaying advertisements (for free applications) or paying directly for services when using applications, are dangerous and unethical.

According to him, among those potentially dangerous for Apple and Android are paid and free applications, especially mobile applications for scheduling payments, learning foreign languages ​​\u200b\u200band games.

Starosek also said that during the research, they determined which country the application belongs to. For example, if the company is registered in Cyprus, but most of the developers in the Russian Federation are Russian companies. And if the company was founded in Russia, but all its members left the country of terror and moved to Poland, it received Polish status in the study.

“The reason is the same – taxes. Paying taxes in Poland is normal, paying taxes in the Russian Federation means financing terrorists,” he said.

He added that a team of three OSINT experts worked for a week on the application research. In total, the Molfar company has 50 full-time employees, 35 of which are research analysts, and the OSINT community founded by Molfar has 200 volunteers and more than 20,000 subscribers on Telegram.

“We actively cooperate with government agencies in the context of the fight against a terrorist country, and also train OSINT and HUMINT. As for the topic of the investigation, the materials are already in the GUR and the Ministry of Digital, CEO Molfar mentioned the team.

He also stressed that it is very important to constantly remind Ukrainians of the importance of information hygiene and to prevent the enemy from infiltrating every aspect of Ukrainian life.

The full list of applications can be found at the link.

As reported by Ukrinform, new photos of the bridge over the Kerch Strait, illegally built by the occupiers, show that the damage is still being repaired here after the explosion. The satellite images were posted on Twitter by OSINT analyst Brady Efrick.

On October 8, an explosion followed by a fire occurred on the Crimean Bridge. After that, part of the road surface collapsed onto the bridge.