Kremlin Restricts Putin Protective Surveillance System After Israeli AI Exploits Iranian CCTV to Locate Khamenei

The Financial Times reported June 8, citing two people familiar with the matter, that Russian security services shut sections of a dedicated surveillance network protecting Putin and his senior aides, reconnecting it only after engineers isolated it from the internet 123. The shutdown followed Israeli intelligence's use of AI to parse Iranian traffic camera footage and locate the February 28 meeting at which Khamenei and several top security officials were killed 13. FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov warned regional security chiefs on May 26 that Russia's surveillance apparatus had become a liability, attributing the Iranian leadership's exposure partly to software backdoors in Tehran's camera systems 12. An independent Ukrainian hacker told the FT that cameras across Moscow, including around the Kremlin, remain operational and are routinely accessed, though he declined to confirm whether Ukraine can analyze them at scale 14.