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BBC News
a day ago
- Politics
- BBC News
Ukrainecast Can Zelensky recover from nationwide protests?
Available for over a year After the biggest demonstrations since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, Volodymyr Zelensky has largely walked back a controversial overhaul of domestic anti-corruption bodies. But is he still under pressure? Fresh from a reporting trip to Ukraine, we're joined by Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor at Channel 4 News. She discusses the fallout from the protests, the changing nature of warfare, and Donald Trump's latest intervention. Plus - Lucy and Vitaly speak with the BBC's Cyber correspondent, Joe Tidy, about an apparent Ukrainian hack on Russia's Aeroflot airline, and the Kremlin's new surveillance-driven alternative to WhatsApp. Today's episode is presented by Lucy Hockings and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Laurie Kalus, Julia Webster and Polly Hope. The technical producers were Phil Bull and Mike Regaard. The social producer was Joe Wilkinson. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham. Email Ukrainecast@ with your questions and comments. Or send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480 You can join the Ukrainecast discussion on Newscast's Discord server here:
Reuters
a day ago
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- Reuters
Russia says Aeroflot has recovered from cyberattack, but dozens more flights cancelled
July 29 (Reuters) - Russian airline Aeroflot ( opens new tab cancelled dozens more flights on Tuesday but said it had now stabilised its schedule after a major cyberattack a day earlier, and the transport ministry said the issue had been resolved. Two pro-Ukraine hacking groups claimed on Monday to have carried out a year-long operation to penetrate Aeroflot's network. They said they had crippled 7,000 servers, extracted data on passengers and employees and gained control over the personal computers of staff, including senior managers. Aeroflot's online timetable showed about 25 flights out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport had been cancelled on Tuesday, mostly overnight and through the morning. Nearly all afternoon and evening flights were due to take off, though dozens were delayed. Interfax news agency said 31 inbound flights to the capital had been cancelled. Aeroflot said it had "stabilised" its flight programme. The transport ministry said in a statement: "Thanks to the efforts of Aeroflot employees, with the active support of Sheremetyevo services, the problem that arose was resolved in the shortest possible time." The ministry described the issue as "a failure in the IT infrastructure". It did not refer to it as a cyberattack, although prosecutors have said they are investigating it as such. Responsibility was claimed by the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, a long-established group that opposes President Alexander Lukashenko, and by a more shadowy and recent hacking outfit that calls itself Silent Crow. Yuliana Shemetovets, a spokesperson for the Cyber Partisans, said Aeroflot was likely working with costly manual systems in order to maintain the appearance of business as usual. The ministry statement said there had been a "transition to domestic systems". "Without IT systems the company can work manually like in the old days when flight tickets cost more than $1K," Shemetovets told Reuters. "It would just be unprofitable, meaning the company would keep sustaining losses just to save face." She said that Aeroflot's CEO had not changed his password since 2022 and that the company was using an outdated version of Windows software. Some workers had passwords saved in a Word document on their computers, she added. Reuters could not independently confirm those details and has approached Aeroflot for comment. Aeroflot's shares were up 1.36% on Tuesday, recovering some ground after slumping to their lowest mark since late 2024 on Monday. Russian lawmakers said the cyberattack was a wake-up call and that investigators should focus not only on the perpetrators but on those who had allowed it to happen. Mikhail Klimarev, director of the Internet Protection Society, a Russian digital rights group, said it was a serious episode that showed cybercriminals were learning "best practice" from around the world while Russian companies were hampered in their response because of sanctions. "It's like with viruses: If you don't communicate with people who have the flu, you have no immunity," he told Reuters. Klimarev said Russian security services had dropped the ball, and the incident highlighted a failure of the technical systems that are meant to allow them to counter such threats. He said there was a grave safety risk as the hackers could hypothetically have exploited their access to Aeroflot systems in order to change data and cause planes to crash.
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First Post
a day ago
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Cancelled flights, blackouts, internet shutdown: The daily problems of being in a state of war
Russian airline Aeroflot cancelled dozens of flights on Tuesday after suffering a major cyberattack a day earlier. Two pro-Ukraine hacker groups claimed responsibility, saying they crippled 7,000 servers and accessed sensitive passenger and employee data. read more Russian airline Aeroflot cancelled dozens more flights on Tuesday but said it had now stabilised its schedule after a major cyberattack a day earlier. Two pro-Ukraine hacking groups claimed on Monday to have carried out a year-long operation to penetrate Aeroflot's network. They said they had crippled 7,000 servers, extracted data on passengers and employees and gained control over the personal computers of staff, including senior managers. The Interfax news agency said Aeroflot had cancelled 59 round-trip flights from Moscow on Monday out of a planned 260. It said that a further 22 flights out of Moscow and 31 into the capital were cancelled on Tuesday. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Aeroflot's online timetable showed that all but one of the 22 cancelled flights out of Moscow on Tuesday had been due to leave before 10 a.m. Moscow time (0700 GMT), but the schedule for the rest of the day appeared largely unaffected. 'As of today, 93% of flights from Moscow and back are planned to be operated according to the original schedule (216 return flights out of 233),' the company said. 'Until 10:00, the company carried out selective flight cancellations, after which Aeroflot's own flight program stabilised.' Apart from the many cancellations, Monday's attack caused heavy delays to air travel across the world's biggest country and drew anger from affected passengers. Responsibility was claimed by the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, a long-established group that opposes President Alexander Lukashenko, and by a more shadowy and recent hacking outfit that calls itself Silent Crow. Russian lawmakers said the cyberattack was a wake-up call and that investigators should focus not only on the perpetrators but on those who had allowed it to happen.
CNA
a day ago
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- CNA
Russia says Aeroflot has recovered from cyberattack, but dozens more flights cancelled
Russian airline Aeroflot cancelled dozens more flights on Tuesday but said it had now stabilised its schedule after a major cyberattack a day earlier, and the transport ministry said the issue had been resolved. Two pro-Ukraine hacking groups claimed on Monday to have carried out a year-long operation to penetrate Aeroflot's network. They said they had crippled 7,000 servers, extracted data on passengers and employees and gained control over the personal computers of staff, including senior managers. Aeroflot's online timetable showed about 25 flights out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport had been cancelled on Tuesday, mostly overnight and through the morning. Nearly all afternoon and evening flights were due to take off, though dozens were delayed. Interfax news agency said 31 inbound flights to the capital had been cancelled. Aeroflot said it had "stabilised" its flight programme. The transport ministry said in a statement: "Thanks to the efforts of Aeroflot employees, with the active support of Sheremetyevo services, the problem that arose was resolved in the shortest possible time." The ministry described the issue as "a failure in the IT infrastructure". It did not refer to it as a cyberattack, although prosecutors have said they are investigating it as such. Responsibility was claimed by the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, a long-established group that opposes President Alexander Lukashenko, and by a more shadowy and recent hacking outfit that calls itself Silent Crow. 'SAVING FACE' Yuliana Shemetovets, a spokesperson for the Cyber Partisans, said Aeroflot was likely working with costly manual systems in order to maintain the appearance of business as usual. The ministry statement said there had been a "transition to domestic systems". "Without IT systems the company can work manually like in the old days when flight tickets cost more than $1K," Shemetovets told Reuters. "It would just be unprofitable, meaning the company would keep sustaining losses just to save face." She said that Aeroflot's CEO had not changed his password since 2022 and that the company was using an outdated version of Windows software. Some workers had passwords saved in a Word document on their computers, she added. Reuters could not independently confirm those details and has approached Aeroflot for comment. Aeroflot's shares were up 1.36 per cent on Tuesday, recovering some ground after slumping to their lowest mark since late 2024 on Monday. Russian lawmakers said the cyberattack was a wake-up call and that investigators should focus not only on the perpetrators but on those who had allowed it to happen. Mikhail Klimarev, director of the Internet Protection Society, a Russian digital rights group, said it was a serious episode that showed cybercriminals were learning "best practice" from around the world while Russian companies were hampered in their response because of sanctions. "It's like with viruses: If you don't communicate with people who have the flu, you have no immunity," he told Reuters. Klimarev said Russian security services had dropped the ball, and the incident highlighted a failure of the technical systems that are meant to allow them to counter such threats. He said there was a grave safety risk as the hackers could hypothetically have exploited their access to Aeroflot systems in order to change data and cause planes to crash.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Major cyber attack closes hundreds of pharmacies across Russia
Hundreds of pharmacies have been forced to close across Russia due to a major cyberattack. The Stolichki pharmacy chain, which has around 900 stores across the Moscow region, closed on late Tuesday morning, followed by Neofarm, which also has stores in the Russian capital. It has left thousands of customers unable to access medication. It is unclear when the chains are expected to reopen. It comes a day after Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot was rocked by a major attack, leading to dozens of flight cancellations and delays on Monday and again this morning. The Silent Crow and Cyber Partisans hacker group, which support Ukraine, claim to have been lurking in Aeroflot's systems for a year and have now carried out a 'large-scale operation' that led to the 'complete compromise and destruction' of Aeroflot's internal IT infrastructure. In a rare admission of vulnerability, the Kremlin said reports of a cyberattack against Aeroflot were 'worrying'. The second day of cyberattacks came hours after Ukraine was rocked by a series of overnight Russian attacks, which killed 27 people. Four powerful Russian glide bombs hit a prison in Zaporizhzhia, authorities said. They killed at least 16 inmates and wounded more than 90 others, Ukraine's Justice Ministry said. Meanwhile, a 23-year-old pregnant woman was among those killed in a strike on a maternity hospital in the central region of Dnipro. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said the strikes were 'deliberate', highlighting that they came just hours after Donald Trump reduced the deadline for Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire. 'These were conscious, deliberate strikes — not accidental,' he said on Telegram. The Kremlin pushed back, with a top Putin mouthpiece warning the US president against 'playing the ultimatum game with Russia.' 'Russia isn't Israel or even Iran,' former president Dmitry Medvedev, who is deputy head of the country's Security Council, said in response to Mr Trump's threats. 'Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country,' he added. 01:57 PM BST Thanks for following our live coverage Thanks for following our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. It has now ended. Here's a summary of today's events: Russian strikes killed at least 27 people and injured 80 more overnight Strikes targeted a prison in Zaporizhzhia and a maternity hospital in Dnipro, where a 23-year-old pregnant woman was killed The strikes came hours after Donald Trump issued a new deadline of 'about 10 or 20 days' to end the conflict or face tough sanctions The UK condemned Russia's overnight attacks, claiming it is 'not serious' about peace Hundreds of pharmacies across Russia - primarily in Moscow - are closed due to a cyberattack The Kremlin insisted it remains 'committed' to peace in Ukraine hours after it killed dozens of people in overnight strikes We'll be back soon with more updates and analysis. 01:52 PM BST Pictured: Injured prisoner after Russian drone strike 01:35 PM BST US 'likely moved nuclear weapons to UK' amid Russian threats The US likely stationed some of its nuclear weapons arsenal in the UK for the first time since 2008 amid Russian threats, according to reports. On July 16, a US military aircraft flew from a US nuclear weapons depot at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico to an airbase in in Lakenheath, England, according to open-source data. The C-17 transport aircraft flew with its transponder on -- making its location publicly visible - and involved the US Air Force's Prime Nuclear Airlift Force, Bloomberg reported. The weapons deliveries likely comprise of the B61-12 thermonuclear bombs, a newer tactical nuclear weapon first developed during the Cold War, the outlet reported, citing defence analysts. 01:02 PM BST Unidentified drone crashes in Minsk An unidentified drone flying over the Belarusian capital of Minsk was downed by the military overnight, its defence ministry said. The drone crashed into an apartment building and hit a parked car, according to local media. No injuries were reported. The defence ministry said air defence forces detected the unmanned aerial vehicle around 2am local time and intercepted it using electronic warfare systems. Investigators claim it was carrying a warhead filled with explosive material. 12:18 PM BST UK condemns Russia's overnight attacks The UK has condemned Russia's overnight attacks, claiming it is 'not serious' about peace. 'Russia is terrorising Ukrainian civilians,' the UK embassy in Kyiv said in a post on X. 'Last night glide bombs hit a detention facility, killing at least 16 and injuring 35. 'A maternity hospital was damaged, and 2 people died. 'The Kremlin is not serious about peace. The UK will continue to ramp up the pressure on Russia.' 11:54 AM BST Hundreds of Russian pharmacies hit by cyberattack Hundreds of pharmacies across Russia - primarily in Moscow - are closed due to a cyberattack, according to reports. The Stolichki pharmacy chain, which has around 900 stores across the Moscow region, has been forced to close. Accounting systems are not working, with employees sent home as a result. It comes a day after Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot was rocked by a major attack, leading to dozens of flight cancellations and delays. 11:17 AM BST Strip young Ukrainian men of benefits, says German politician Ukrainian men of fighting age should be stripped of social benefits in Germany, the right-wing CSU party - the sister party of Merz's CDU - has said. Stephan Mayer, the CSU's foreign policy spokesman, said it did not make sense that Ukrainian who should be serving in their army were on benefits in Germany. 'The citizen's allowance for male Ukrainians of military age must finally be ended . If almost 151,000 Ukrainians between the ages of 18 and 63 are receiving social benefits from us, then something is wrong,' he said. 'This group of people is not entitled to this social benefit and must either work here in Germany or perform military service in Ukraine.' 10:53 AM BST Kremlin insists it remains 'committed' to peace The Kremlin has insisted it remains 'committed' to peace in Ukraine hours after it killed 22 people in overnight strikes. A spokesperson for Vladimir Putin also said it had 'taken note' of Donald Trump's threat to impose heavy sanctions on Russia in '10 or 12 days' if he does agree to peace. Moscow added that there had been a 'slowdown' in an attempt to restore relations the US against the backdrop of Mr Trump's repeated threats. 'There is indeed a slowdown,' Dmitry Peskov told reporters answering a question about Moscow's ties with Washington, adding: 'We would like to see more dynamics. We are interested in this. In order to move forward, we need impulses from both sides'. 10:48 AM BST Trump opens golf course in Scotland Donald Trump is speaking at the opening of a new golf course in Scotland. Yesterday he revealed at Trump Turnberry that he was reducing his deadline for Vladimir Putin to agree to peace in Ukraine. We're not sure if he's going to address the war in Ukraine this morning but you can follow live coverage here. 10:46 AM BST Russian shelling kills five in Kharkiv Russian shelling of Ukraine's north-east Kharkiv region killed five people and wounded three, local police said this morning. 'According to preliminary data, five civilians were killed and three more were wounded to varying degrees as a result of the shelling,' the police said on Telegram, adding that Russia struck the area 'presumably with a multiple launch rocket system'. 10:39 AM BST Russia's Aeroflot cancels more flights after cyberattack Russian airline Aeroflot cancelled dozens more flights today after it was rocked by a major cyberattack. Two pro-Ukraine hacking groups claimed on Monday to have carried out a year-long operation to penetrate Aeroflot's network. They said they had crippled 7,000 servers, extracted data on passengers and employees and gained control over the personal computers of staff, including senior managers. The Interfax news agency said Aeroflot had cancelled 59 round-trip flights from Moscow on Monday out of a planned 260. It said that a further 22 flights out of Moscow and 31 into the capital were cancelled today so far. 10:09 AM BST German politician secretly fights for Ukraine A 22-year-old member of Germany's hard-right AfD revealed he has been secretly fighting for Ukraine, meaning he could be expelled from the party. Tim Schramm, deputy chairman of the AfD (Alternative for Germany) district association in Wuppertal, first arrived in Ukraine in 2022, delivering aid, Die Welt reported. By 2024, he had joined the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces (TDF) and served on the eastern front, taking part in combat operations against Russian troops. Speaking to he described Russia as an 'authoritarian country permeated with propaganda'. 'The Ukrainian fight is also a German one,' he said. 09:47 AM BST Pictured: Aftermath of overnight attacks 09:18 AM BST Russian strike on Ukraine prison was 'deliberate', says Zelensky Volodymyr Zelensky has said that a Russian airstrike on a prison in Ukraine was 'not accidental' and that Russia 'must be compelled to stop the killing and make peace.' 'It was a deliberate strike, intentional, not accidental. The Russians could not have been unaware that they were targeting civilians in that facility,' the Ukrainian president said in a statement on social media. 09:04 AM BST Zelensky: Russia deserves 'very harsh' sanctions after attacks Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia deserves 'very harsh, painful' sanctions after overnight attacks killed at least 22 people, including a 23-year-old pregnant woman. 'Every killing of our people by the Russians, every Russian strike – at a time when a ceasefire could have long been in place, if not for Russia's refusal – all of this shows that Moscow deserves very harsh, truly painful, and therefore just and effective sanctions pressure,' the Ukrainian president said. 'They must be compelled to stop the killing and make peace.' 08:32 AM BST Opinion: Vladimir Putin has finally run out of time President Donald Trump has issued a new ultimatum to Russia. A bold move, but is Putin likely to accede to Trump's demands? Russia's most recent conduct suggests no. Hours before Trump's statement, Russia launched a drone and missile barrage against Ukraine that forced Poland to scramble fighter jets over its airspace. Russian official rhetoric has been equally bellicose. In response to Trump's statement, former president Dmitry Medvedev warned that the US was taking a step towards war with Russia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has declared that 'Russia is fighting alone against the entire West'. But Putin's determination to call Trump's bluff is a dangerous miscalculation. He appears to have predicted that Trump would withdraw military support for Ukraine upon taking office and hand Russia a blank cheque for further aggression, but these assumptions were mistaken. Trump has now earmarked Russia as the sole obstruction to peace in Ukraine and is devising a robust deterrence policy. 08:07 AM BST Pictured: Ukrainian troops defend Dnipropetrovsk Ukrainian troops have been defending Dnipropetrovsk, which has come under an increasing number of attacks by Russian forces. Over the weekend, the Russian army said its forces had 'liberated' the village of Maliyevka, weeks after it seized the first settlement in the region. The region was not one of the five illegally annexed by Vladimir Putin in 2022 but the Russian president has threatened to take further territory from Ukraine if it does not agree to give up territory. 07:46 AM BST Ukrainian drones strike Russian train station Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack on a train station in Russia's Rostov overnight, local officials have said. Videos shared online show a large blaze burning at a railway station, sparking travel chaos in the region. Located near the Azov Sea and bordering Ukraine, Rostov plays a key logistical role in Russia's war effort due to its proximity to the front line. Credit: @JayinKyiv / X 07:32 AM BST Kyiv accuses Russia of war crimes in overnight strikes A senior Ukrainian official has accused Russia of committing a war crime by striking a prison in Zaporizhzhia. Andriy Yermak, a senior adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky, said: 'Russia has struck a correctional facility in the Zaporizhzhia region. Sixteen people are confirmed dead, and 35 injured. Nearby residential buildings have been destroyed. 'This is yet another war crime committed by the Russians — and they won't stop unless they are stopped.' 07:20 AM BST Ukraine reacts to Trump deadline Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, hailed Mr Trump's 'clear stance' towards Putin that came 'right on time, when a lot can change through strength for real peace'. 'Today, there was an extremely significant statement by President Trump. And it is true: it is Russia who is doing everything to undermine peace efforts and drag out the war,' the Ukrainian president said in his evening address. 'Every night there are strikes, constant Russian attempts to hurt Ukraine. Indeed, peace is possible if we act strongly and decisively, and we have repeatedly said—and all partners know this—that sanctions are a key element.' 07:06 AM BST As it happened: Trump shortens Putin deadline for ceasefire Donald Trump gave Vladimir Putin less than two weeks to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine or face heavy sanctions. Speaking to reporters yesterday alongside Sir Keir Starmer at his Turnberry Golf Club in Scotland, the US president said he was 'very disappointed' with Putin over continued strikes against Ukrainian civilian targets. He announced he would be reducing an earlier 50-day deadline to end the war in 'about 10 or 12 days', starting immediately, because did not see 'any progress' being made towards a ceasefire. Mr Trump had threatened earlier this month to impose 'very severe' tariffs on countries that trade with Russia if it did not agree to a ceasefire by Sept 5. 'We thought we had that [ceasefire] settled numerous times, and then president Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever,' he said. 'You have bodies lying all over the street, and I say that's not the way to do it. So we'll see what happens with that.' 07:01 AM BST 20 killed across Ukraine At least 20 people were killed and more than 40 wounded in overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine, regional officials said this morning. Russia carried out eight strikes on the Zaporizhzhia region, hitting a prison, according to Ivan Fedorov, the head of the military administration. '16 people were killed, 35 were wounded,' he said on Telegram, adding that the premises were destroyed and that nearby houses were damaged. People were also killed and more wounded in attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to regional government officials. A missile strike on the city of Kamyanske killed two people, wounded five and damaged a hospital, Sergiy Lysak, head of the regional military administration said on Telegram. Another person was killed and several wounded in an attack on the region's Synelnykivsky district, he said. In a separate attack on Velykomykhaylivska, Monday night, a '75-year-old woman was killed. A 68-year-old man was wounded. A private house was damaged,' he posted on Telegram. 07:00 AM BST Welcome to our live coverage Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. We'll bring you the latest news and analysis throughout the day. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
