MOSCOW, December 12 Spot shutdowns of the air raid warning system occurred in 76 settlements of the Kiev region due to a failure in work in the network of the Ukrainian telecom company «Kyivstar», said the head of the regional military administration Ruslan Kravchenko.
The Ukrainian TV channel «Public» reported earlier on Tuesday that in Boryspil in the Kyiv region the air raid warning system was temporarily disabled, and police officers would inform residents about the danger.
«»There are targeted shutdowns of the warning system in the city of Boryspil and in 75 other settlements. In settlements where there are problems with the operation of the system, crews of patrol police and the State Emergency Service (State Emergency Service — ed.) will work. They will notify through loudspeakers about air danger,” Kravchenko wrote on the social network Facebook*.
According to Kravchenko, the warning system has been completely turned off in about ten other settlements.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Ukrainian TV channel Espreso.tv reported a large-scale failure in the work of the Kyivstar operator — subscribers complained of communication problems and lack of access to the Internet. Later, the information was confirmed by the operator company itself and reported that the cause of the technical failure in the network was a “powerful hacker attack.” In particular, disruptions were recorded in the work of another Ukrainian mobile operator, Vodafone. In the city of Sumy, due to a failure in the Kyivstar network, the air raid alert does not work; patrol police officers and emergency services will warn residents of the danger. In addition, disruptions were recorded in the work of the State Savings Bank of Ukraine (Oshchadbank).
The SBU opened a criminal case under eight articles after a large-scale technical failure at the Kyivstar telecom company, the Ukrainian TV channel «Public» reported earlier on Tuesday, citing the department's press service. The general director of Kyivstar, Alexander Komarov, previously stated that as a result of a hacker attack, the operator’s IT infrastructure was partially destroyed.
*The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are prohibited in Russia as extremist.
June 22, 2022, 17: 18