Israel’s threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned that traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same sinister intrigues that Israel used to monitor Ayatollah Khamenei’s residence before slaying him.

Israeli military spokeswoman Anna Ukolova has drawn outrage in Moscow after threatening that any Russian authorities who ‘wish Israel ill’ could be subject to ‘elimination.’

The Ukrainian-born Israelite suggested Israel could hack into Russian closed-circuit television cameras. This would allow them to identify and track targets, such as Russia’s top officials, including Putin.

A journalist with Russian radio broadcaster RBC asked whether Israel had access to Russian traffic cameras. Ukolova declined to answer.

However, she warned that ‘Khamenei’s elimination shows our capabilities are serious.’ She added 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.’

She wrote in response to a post by Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin.

The Israeli Defense Force 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 shortly after a significant revelation. It was revealed that a large number of Russian CCTVs were actually using BriefCam. BriefCam is an Israeli video analysis software.

The software system closely matches the description of a program. The Netanyahu regime deployed it to track Iranian movements outside the home of Iran’s Supreme Leader. They assassinated him during their February 28 sneak attack.

On March 12, Russian outlet Mash revealed some information. The Israeli software BriefCam has been used in Russia by private providers since the 2010s.

BriefCam was founded at Israel’s Hebrew University in 2007. It uses AI to let users review hours of video in minutes. This makes their video searchable, actionable, and quantifiable.

In 2024, BriefCam was absorbed by a Dutch subsidiary of the Canon Group named Milestone Systems. The company 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

This system allows the user to filter surveillance by object type and attributes,’ the company’s BriefCam page boasts.

An analysis by Al Jazeera revealed those attributes. They 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

These include those in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Pakistan, Israel, and Mexico. They also include the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. Additional countries are Brazil, Germany, South Africa, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, India, Spain, and 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. The court cited multiple violations of French and European privacy laws.

According to the Russian outlet Mash, a number of prominent Moscow businesses, institutions, and buildings use VMS XProtect surveillance system.

These include the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics. It is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences Aso. There is also a 72-story skyscraper named ‘Eurasia.’ Additionally, there is a huge exhibit space known as the Zotov Center.

Milestone officially ended operations in Russia in 2022 amid the war in Ukraine. However, Mash reports that some software distributors in Russia still offer to install hacked software. They hide this in the documents. Wyatt Reed is an editor at The Grayzone

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