Israel issues an insane provocation against Putin and the Russian government for backing Iran, with threats from its global security system.
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Israeli military spokeswoman Anna Ukolova has drawn outrage in Moscow after threatening that Russian authorities who “wish Israel ill” could be subject to “elimination,” while suggesting Israel could hack into Russian closed-circuit television cameras to identify and track targets.
Asked by a journalist with Russian radio broadcaster RBC whether Israel had access to Russian traffic cameras, Ukolova
declined to answer directly but warned that “Khamenei’s elimination shows our capabilities are serious” and that “no one who wishes us harm will be left aside.”
She added, ominously, “I hope Moscow does not wish Israel ill right now – I’d like to believe that.”
In response to a
post by Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, who wrote that the IDF spokeswoman threatened that “Russian authorities [will] be killed if they take [an] anti-Israel position,” Ukolova
claimed Dugin was spreading “fake news.” But she declined to clarify how her remarks had been incorrectly interpreted.
Ukolova’s statements came just days after it was revealed that a large number of Russian CCTVs were potentially using BriefCam – an Israeli video analysis software that closely matches the description of a program the Netanyahu regime
reportedly deployed to track Iranian movements outside the home of Iran’s Supreme Leader before they assassinated him during their February 28 sneak attack.
On March 12, Russian outlet Mash
revealed that the Israeli software BriefCam “has been used in Russia by private providers since the 2010s.” Founded at Israel’s Hebrew University in 2007, BriefCam uses AI to let users “review hours of video in minutes” and “make [their] video searchable, actionable and quantifiable.” In 2024, BriefCam was absorbed by a Dutch subsidiary of the Canon Group named Milestone Systems, which
publicly pledges to “amplify what organizations of any size can see, do and achieve with video.”
“Our patented VIDEO SYNOPSIS® technology condenses hours of surveillance into a short summary by overlaying multiple events—each tagged with its original timestamp—onto a single frame, letting you filter them by object type and attributes,” the company’s BriefCam page
crows. An
analysis by Al Jazeera revealed those attributes include “gender, age group, clothing, movement patterns and time spent in a given location.”
Originally
deployed by Israel’s Ministry of Housing and Construction to safeguard illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem, BriefCam has been used by governments all over the world,
including those in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Pakistan, Israel, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, Germany, South Africa, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, India, Spain, Taiwan. It’s also been deployed in the US, with police in Hartford, Connecticut
adopting the software in 2022. In 2025, a French court found the government’s use of BriefCam was illegal,
citing multiple violations of French and European privacy laws.
As of publication, BriefCam appears to be integrated into dozens of so-called “video monitoring systems,” including Milestone’s own VMS, XProtect.
According to the Russian outlet Mash, a number of prominent Moscow businesses, institutions, and buildings use VMS XProtect surveillance system, including the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a 72-story skyscraper named “Eurasia,” and a huge exhibit space known as the Zotov Center. Though Milestone officially ended operations in Russia in 2022 amid the war in Ukraine, Mash reports that some software distributors in Russia “still offer to install the hacked software and hide this in the documents.”
The wounded cameraman, Ali Rida, argued that Israel deliberately targeted journalists
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MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. RT Lebanon bureau chief Steve Sweeney and his cameraman were wounded in an Israeli attack in the southern Arab republic on Thursday, both are conscious, the TV channel reported on Telegram.
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"RT correspondent Steve Sweeney and his cameraman [were] wounded in [an] Israeli attack in southern Lebanon. An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at their vehicle as they crossed a bridge near a military base," the TV channel said.
The news crew are conscious and are receiving medical assistance at a hospital, RT added.
The wounded cameraman, Ali Rida, argued that Israel deliberately targeted journalists.
"We were wearing [press] uniform. The Israeli enemy targeted us deliberately," he said in a video posted on RT’s Telegram channel.
On March 9, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began "a targeted and limited raid" in southern Lebanon to dismantle Hezbollah’s infrastructure.
Tehran seeks to make sure its foes pay a sufficient price so that they think twice before resuming strikes, sources said
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Tehran seeks to make sure its foes pay a sufficient price so that they think twice before resuming strikes, sources said
LONDON, March 19. /TASS/. Iran is getting ready for a protracted war of attrition as it wants assurances that the United States and Israel will not resume attacks in the future, the
Financial Times reported, citing Iranian sources.
According to them, Iran views the conflict as an existential threat and will not stop until it has the assurances and sanctions relief. The Islamic republic believes that unless it gets these guarantees, attacks may resume. Tehran seeks to make sure its foes pay a sufficient price so that they think twice before resuming strikes, sources said. The Iranian regime is making the case to the population that it is prepared for a long conflict, the newspaper wrote.
While the United States earlier said it would be ready to end the hostilities, stopping the conflict will not be up to Washington alone, experts said, as Tehran plans to silence its guns on its own terms, the newspaper added. Sources told the FT that even as the hostilities subside Iran could keep up its pressure on Israel and the region and continue holding shipping shut in the Strait of Hormuz.
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