Ukrainian special services were involved in a cyber attack aimed at the broadcast of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s speech on Crimean television, writes Ukrainian Pravdaciting intelligence sources.

All IPTV channels in the occupied Crimea broadcast the speech of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence Kyryl Budanov and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.

Residents noticed it at approximately 9:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m. Kyiv time). The Russians later shut down the show.

“This is the Ukrainian peninsula, the president of Ukraine should deal with it, not the Russian occupiers,” says the source of “Ukrainian Pravda”.

The UP source explained that the complex of measures to restore Ukrainian sovereignty over the peninsula temporarily occupied by Russia, including the mass media, continues.

Similar cyberattacks have taken place before, but the Ukrainian press reports for the first time about the involvement of special services.

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