The Kremlin denounces: “Unprecedented hacker attack on state TV”. Claimed by an anonymous pro-Ukrainian group

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“Our state information assets, one of the largest, faced an unprecedented hacker attack on its digital infrastructure”: the Kremlin spokesman declared, Dmitri Peskovcommenting on the news of an alleged hacker attack against the Russian state broadcaster Vgtrk.

This was reported by the Interfax and Tass agencies.

Vgtrk told Interfax that “on the night of October 7, the online services” of Russia’s state broadcaster “were subjected to an unprecedented hacker attack, but no significant damage was caused to the work of the media holding.”

The attack on Russian state TV was claimed by the anonymous pro-Ukrainian hacker group Sudo rm-RF according to Rbc Ukraina reports. On Vladimir Putin’s birthday, hackers suspended online broadcasts of TV channels Rossiya 1 and Rossiya 24, disrupting some morning online broadcasts.

Meanwhile, exchanges of attacks between Russia and Ukraine continue. Kiev says it has repelled a Russian attack with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles on the city of Kiev, explaining that some debris fell in three districts of the Ukrainian capital at eight in the morning. No serious damage or casualties were reported from the attack, Serhiy Popko, head of the city’s military administration, said.

“Debris was recorded in three districts of Kiev: Solomyanskyi, Shevchenkivskyi and Holosiivskyi. Three cars, the roof of a residential building and the roof of a supermarket were damaged. The rest of the wreckage fell into an open area without consequences,” he said. reported the local administration.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that it shot down two out of three Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missiles launched last night over the Kiev region and shot down 32 enemy attack drones in the regions of Mykolaiv, Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Chernihiv, Poltava and Kharkiv. Several Russian drones – writes Ukrinform – hit the front-line areas of the Kharkiv region, while of the three Kinzhal hit an area near the Starokostiantyniv airport in the Khmelnytskyi region.

The Russian army instead reports that it has conquered another village in eastern Ukraine, that of Grodovka, in the Donetsk region near the town of Pokrovsk. This was announced by the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, and that it shot down 21 Ukrainian drones during the night, 12 of which over the territory of Russian-occupied Crimea.

However, explosions were heard overnight in occupied Crimea and the head of the Feodosia city administration, Igor Tkachenlo, reported that a fire broke out in an oil depot in the port area.