“Already today, special services of NATO countries are actively using false base stations to force the connection of cellular subscribers,” Lastochkin said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
He noted that NATO intelligence services can not only listen to mobile phones and view text messages, but also selectively block subscribers.
In May 2021, the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported that the US National Security Agency, with the help of Denmark, monitored a number of European politicians in 2012-2014, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and other dignitaries from Germany, Sweden, France and Norway.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the “tip of the iceberg” the situation around the possible wiretapping of high-ranking EU politicians.