Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration — Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry PeskovWASHINGTON, Jan 16 Russia is not involved in cyber attacks on state websites of Ukraine, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with the American television channel CNN. «We have nothing to do with this. Russia has nothing to do with these cyber attacks,» Peskov was quoted as saying on Twitter. Hill. The presidential press secretary stressed that Moscow is aware of the accusations against it, but they are unsubstantiated.
"We are almost used to the fact that Ukrainians blame Russia for everything, even bad weather in their country" ;, — added the press secretary.
Last Friday, the press secretary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Oleg Nikolenko, announced a hacker attack against the websites of the department and a number of other government agencies. On the start page of the website of the Ministry of Education and Science, a message appeared that allegedly all the personal data of Ukrainians were uploaded to the general network. The State Special Communications Service claimed that there was no personal data leakage due to a hacker attack, but this is the most powerful cyber attack in recent years.In Ukraine, they spoke about the progress of the investigation into the case of a hacker attack, the SBU and the police opened a criminal case, while the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture stated that Russia was allegedly involved in the cyber attack. However, later Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Sergei Demedyuk suggested that the attack could have been organized by the Belarusian special services. The US authorities said that they are not yet ready to draw conclusions about who is behind this. Relations between Moscow and Kiev deteriorated after the reunification of Crimea with Russia and against the background of the armed conflict in the Donbass. The Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly accused Russia of interfering in the internal affairs of the state, and in January 2015 they officially declared it an «aggressor country.» Moscow has repeatedly stressed that it does not participate in the intra-Ukrainian conflict and is not a subject of the Minsk agreements. Russia has repeatedly rejected Western accusations of cyber attacks, calling them unfounded, and has also stated that it is ready to cooperate on cyber security.
The US announced contact with Kiev on a cyber attack on the websites of Ukrainian government agencies