The mobile app of Russia’s emergencies ministry was hit by a massive cyberattack that spread false information to the public, state news agency TASS reported early on Monday, adding that the ministry was working to restore the app.
\n\nHours earlier, Ukraine reported a hack in its air raid alert system after baseless alerts of a radiation threat appeared on the app.
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\n\nAir force spokesman Yuriy Ignat confirmed to AFP that the app had been hacked.
\n\nMoscow did not immediately say who was behind the attack on its app, while Ukraine's Center for Strategic Communications SPRAVDI blamed Russia for the hack it suffered.
\n\nThe cyberattacks came as the longest truce of the war, limited to Ukraine's eastern Kherson region, ended on Sunday after Russia refused the offer of an extension, according to Kyiv.
\n\nThe rare pause in fighting, brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump and which began early Tuesday, had enabled a humanitarian mission to the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky as the war grinds through its fifth year.
\n\n“The ceasefire, which was in effect from October 27 to November 1, has ended,” Ukraine's Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro…
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