Investigation is still ongoing but the Security Service of Ukraine has obtained preliminary indicators suggesting that hacker groups associated with the Russian secret services may stand behind today's massive cyberattack on government websites
2 year agoEchelon according to comments heading to Valuyki in Belgorod region
We have info that indicates Russia has already pre positioned a group of operatives to conduct a false flag operation in eastern Ukraine. The operatives are trained in urban warfare & using explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against Russia's own proxy forces. - @PressSec
Kirby: "We have information that [Russia has] pre-positioned a group of operatives to conduct what we call a "false flag" operation, an operation designed to look like an attack on them or their people - or Russian speaking people in Ukraine - as an excuse to go in
US government official: The White House requests an increase in the number of US military advisers and trainers in Ukraine
Ukraine National Security & Defense secretary tells @VOANews @MGongadze "only one country that can do it today on such a scale, it's the Russian Federation"
Wendy R. Sherman:.@OSCE Secretary General @HelgaSchmid_SG and I discussed Russia's ongoing aggression towards Ukraine and welcomed the Polish Chairman-in-Office @RauZbigniew's proposal to launch a revitalized discussion on European security at OSCE to reduce tensions
Ukrainian President has proposed meeting with presidents of Russia, Ukraine and the U.S - Kyiv
The US has information that indicates Russia has prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine, a US official told CNN on Friday, in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion
2 year agoRussian Mi-8 and Ka-52 today over Bza'a, east of al Bab
2 year agoMilitary echelon in Koltsovo
2 year agoCombat vehicles roll on the streets of Visby
The FSB, after request from the United States, detained a group of hackers behind ransomware attacks(allegedly REvil group) - FSB
Investigators detained in Moscow a suspect in financing a terrorist organization in Syria and Iraq
A source with knowledge of recent cybersecurity initiatives in Ukraine told BuzzFeed News hours before the cyberattack that Kyiv & Washington had recently seen a "substantial uptick" in Russian cyber activity targeting Ukrainian systems & planting malware
2 year agoMiltiary echelon filmed in Kranoyarsk Krai. Witnesses reporting multiple echelons every day
Lavrov on the possibility of Kazakhstan joining the Union State of Russia and Belarus: we do not have the habit of calling someone forcibly, we are polite people
US NATO ambassador @USAmbNATO @Julie_C_Smith says still looking into Ukraine cyber attack but confirms cyber is "certainly" a criteria to trigger threatened western sanctions against Russia for any further aggressive action against its neighbor
2 year agoGerman Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock: At my first personal meeting with my colleague from Lithuania, @GLandsbergis, I talked on Ukraine, Russia and China
Putin to attend the opening of the Beijing Olympics on February 4, to hold talks with Xi Jinping - Lavrov
Lavrov: the participation of Western instructors in the conflict in Donbass will cross all red lines and mean a direct clash between the "Russian people" and the NATO military
The United States has had a direct hand in the current crisis in Orthodoxy, - Lavrov said
Lavrov: there are several hundred U.S. and British military in Ukraine
The EU military training mission in Ukraine is essentially aimed at training anti-Russian units, Lavrov said.
Lavrov on the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO: we categorically do not accept the emergence of an alliance on Russian borders, this is a real red line
Lavrov: even if Ukraine will not join NATO, the appearance of strike weapons and US military bases in the Sea of Azov is the second red line
2 year agoRussian prominent opposition activists Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov are included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring
The Russian Federation did not try to play any games when it put forward US and NATO proposals on security, - Lavrov said.
Major General Andrei Koban, head of the radio-technical troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces, arrested in Moscow in connection with a bribery case
Russia warns the US and NATO: we will not wait forever for an answer
