Cyberattack blamed on Russia

Ukrainian officials blamed Russia for the Tuesday cyberattack that hit the country’s defense ministry and at least two banks.

Russia has denied involvement in what Ukraine called the largest cyberattack it has ever experienced, Reuters reported.

In a Wednesday news conference, Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called the attack “unprecedented” and said the IP addresses involved in the attacks were from China, Russia, Uzbekistan and the Czech Republic.

“The key goal of this attack is destabilization, it is to sow panic, to do everything so that a certain chaos appears in our country,” Fedorov said, according to the news wire. “And today we know that the only country that is interested in such … attacks on our state, especially against the backdrop of massive panic about a possible military invasion, the only country that is interested is the Russian Federation.”