“No Secrets if You Have a Cellphone”: Lukashenko Orders Officials to Use Landlines

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has urged officials to rely on traditional landline telephones instead of mobile phones, warning that calls made over cellular networks could end up “on servers in Canada or the United States,” according to Belarusian state news agency Belta, cited by The Moscow Times.

Lukashenko said his stance was not driven by conservatism but by security concerns. “It’s not because I’m a conservative. There are no secrets if you have a cellphone—what you do, where you go. No secrets,” he said.

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The president also criticized what he described as excessive digitalization, arguing that “not everything should be moved into the digital realm” and that certain documents and data are better kept on paper.

He further downplayed concerns about privacy, telling citizens not to “worry too much about personal data—phone numbers, addresses, and so on.”

Previously, it was reported that the head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Oleg Ivashchenko, reported on Russia’s military plans concerning Belarus and on sanctions constraining Moscow’s war capabilities, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated.

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