‘No evidence of de-escalation’ on Ukrainian border, says NATO. A major cyber attack has knocked out the websites of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry, armed forces and two major state banks, just hours after President Putin insisted Russia does not want war. #Ukrain #Channel4news #Reuters

"The type of disruption reported by Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday is known as a distributed denial-of-service - often abbreviated DDoS - but the scale of it wasn't immediately clear. The manoeuvre, which works by directing a fire hose of internet traffic from a multitude of sources against one set of servers or another, is a common across the internet and such attacks happen periodically in Ukraine and beyond." Read more.