A senior Ukrainian government official announced on Wednesday February 23 that several official Ukrainian sites were inaccessible.
Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fyodorov said the attack began in the late afternoon, disrupting the operation of the websites of several banks and ministries in the country. It was thus impossible to access this Wednesday evening the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that of the Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament, or even the Cabinet of Ministers.
The Deputy Prime Minister speaks of a massive cyberattack, without specifying its origin. Difficult yet in the current context not to see the hand of Moscow which has an army of hackers.
Already last week, several official sites had been made inaccessible for several hours. But the biggest of the cyberattacks dates back to last month. On the night of January 13 to 14, several official Ukrainian websites were targeted. Kyiv had asserted through its Minister of Digital Transformation that all the evidence indicated that Russia was behind this cyberattack. Accusations denied by Moscow.
A major computer attack targeting strategic Ukrainian infrastructure is one of the scenarios mentioned as the harbinger of a classic military offensive. The renewed intensity of violence on the eastern front of Ukraine, the scene for eight years of a war with separatists supported by Russia, makes the West fear an imminent Russian invasion.