Fakes about the Armed Forces in Avdiivka: hackers from Russia broke several Ukrainian online media

Russian hackers broke the sites of several publications and spread the news about "the defeat of elite units of the Armed Forces in Avdiivka". Experts of the State Security Service are investigating all the incidents. On the evening of February 18, a number of Ukrainian Internet media complained about cyber-attacks. The editorial office of Ukrainian Truth reported the loss of access to the account on the social network H.

Please do not consider the information published on the social network as it is related to the UP, " - the publication reacted. It was later possible to restore access to the Ukrainian Truth account on the social network. The news of the "defeat of elite units of the Armed Forces" in Avdiivka appeared in the afternoon at 2:30 pm on Liga. net. The editorial board of the resource states that it is not involved in the publication of Russian misinformation. "The site was broken by unknown.

The fake news was promptly removed from the news tape, but for some time it was still active, and also automatically spread to Liga. net accounts on the social network X," the agency said. The Apostrophe site also collided with the work of Russian experts with IPSO and the publication of the material about "escape of the Armed Forces from standpoint, leaving equipment and wounded". The misinformation was supported by the collage and the signature to it.

"The Apostrophe editorial states that this material has nothing to do with reality and calls on readers to consume information responsibly. The site staff is doing their best to prevent such attacks by Russian aggressors in the future," the editorial office said. Similar news came on the website of the publication "Telegraph", but after a while it was deleted. The editorial board did not comment on the incident.

The State Secretariat later stated that Russian hackers had carried out another attack on a number of Ukrainian media and placed fake information on their resources. "Representatives of Ukrainian Pravda, Liga. net, Apostrophe and Telegraph have already addressed the government emergency events to the computer emergency events at the State Secretariat of Communications. We will remind, the Ukrainian military came out of Avdiivka, but the Russians continue to attack in this direction.