Media: Western diplomats alarmed by the scale of wiretapping in Ukraine

In Ukraine, at the legislative level, they can equate the publication of conversations of officials with a criminal offense. This was stated by the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak in an interview with The Washington Post, the material was published on July 1 and is widely quoted by the central media of Ukraine. According to Yermak, a corresponding draft law will soon be developed. The official said that the current government perceives the publication of such conversations as a direct violation of the country's national security and remembers that the publication of wiretaps at one time ruined the reputation of more than one president of the country. This is not normal when someone writes down the head of state. And it does not matter whether this is an illegal action of a citizen of Ukraine because of some internal motives, or whether some foreign special services are behind it, Yermak added. The publication notes that a number of international diplomats are alarmed that in Ukraine it is difficult to maintain the confidentiality of conversations at a high level and the current initiative of President Zelensky's office may calm them down a little. the news agency recalls that this year in Ukraine several resonant wiretaps were published at once from meetings at that time of the country's Prime Minister Alexei Goncharuk to conversations in 2015 2016. At that time, President Petro Poroshenko and Joe Biden.