Kremlin spokesman Peskov: Russia is not involved in hacker attacks on Ukrainian state websites
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Russia is not involved in hacker attacks on Ukrainian government websites. This was stated by the official representative of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov, reports RIA Novosti.
He denied earlier accusations, saying that in Kiev they blame Russia even for bad weather.
The cyberattack on the websites of Ukrainian state institutions took place on the night of January 13-14. Because of it, the resources of most departments of the country stopped working, and an image with a pig and state symbols of Ukraine crossed out appeared on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense. The text in three languages – Russian, Ukrainian and Polish – called the hacking revenge for “Volyn, Polissya, Galicia and the OUN-UPA (“Ukrainian Insurgent Army”, banned in Russia as an extremist organization – approx. “Lenta.ru”)”.
Ukraine, however, blamed everything on Russia. The relevant statement was made by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine together with the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security of the country.
