The war between Moscow and kyiv is also being played out in technological terms. Ukraine said on Tuesday it had carried out a cyberattack that knocked out a Russian Defense Ministry server and temporarily disrupted internal exchange of information.
The operation “neutralized the special communications server of the Russian Defense Ministry,” Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) assured in a statement claiming responsibility. Moscow, for its part, has so far not reacted.
The operation “continues”
“The cyberattack disrupted the exchange of information between units of the Russian Defense Ministry that used the server in question, located in Moscow,” the GUR added. This operation “continues,” he said.
At the same time, Russian authorities announced on Tuesday an outage affecting numerous websites in the country and caused by a “technical problem”. The Ministry of Defense website was not mentioned, and there is currently no indication that these two announcements are linked.
The Ministry of Digital Development affirmed in a press release that this malfunction “related to the DNSSEC infrastructure”, or “Domain Name System Security Extensions”, had been resolved in the evening. “Disruptions” could continue “for some time”, warned the ministry. These dysfunctions were reported in the Moscow region, but also in those of Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk and even in the Republic of Tatarstan, according to the state agency Ria Novosti.