On the Day of Russia, satellite broadcasts of central Russian TV channels abroad were interrupted by splash screens with the truth about the war in Ukraine and a mourning photo of Putin.< /strong>
On Sunday, June 12, when Russia was celebrating Russia Day, hackers broke the central Russian TV channels that broadcast abroad via satellite. Instead of the usual propaganda of the Kremlin mouthpieces, truthful information about the war in Ukraine was broadcast.
According to the Russian writer and journalist Andrei Shipilov on his Facebook page, Channel One, Rossiya and NTV suffered from a cyber attack.
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On the channel “Russia” they continuously talked about how the war in Ukraine hit the wallet of Russians. On the air, they talked about the “complete collapse of the economy within the country”, a decrease in gas exports, an increase in the cost of the consumer basket and the disappearance of many goods from store shelves, which also affects the rise in prices.
On Channel One they talked about that the loss of Russian personnel during the war exceeded 30 thousand, and corrupt officials and generals “plundered the military budget.”
At the same time, NTV showed a video in which Russia was called the “country of widows”, “the country impoverished army”, “a country on the edge of an abyss” and “a country without a future”.
There was also a screensaver with a mourning photo of Putin against the background of dancers in police uniforms.
Napo Supposedly, the US Department of State published an appeal by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to the Russians on the occasion of the Russian holiday, which is celebrated at the state level in the Russian Federation on June 12.
