According to Reuters and the BBC, several regional radio and television stations on Tuesday broadcast warnings of a “rocket attack”, urging people to take cover. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that this is a new hacker attack.

In several regions of Russia, local radio stations and TV channels are broadcasting a new aviation alert to the sound of sirens with announcements of a “missile strike” and calls to citizens to immediately take shelter, the BBC writes.

According to Russian media, these alerts were broadcast mainly in the Belgorod and Voronezh regions, on the border with Ukraine, as well as in Moscow and St. Petersburg and on the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

• “Information about the activation of the anti-aircraft alarm spread in some regions of the country after the hacking of radio servers and TV channels.
• This information is false, does not correspond to reality,” said the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Less than a week ago, several commercial radio stations broadcasting in several Russian cities also broadcast a message warning the population that they were on high alert and should take shelter because missile fire was imminent. Russian authorities also accused at the time that the servers of the radio stations were hacked. (Photo source: Dreamstime)