“The time has come to act differently”: Poroshenko closed their accounts in Vkontakte and Classmates

After the signing of the decree, according to which a number of Russian sites is subject to lock in Ukraine for three years, the administration of the Ukrainian President has accepted the decision on closing of the official accounts of Petro Poroshenko in the social networks Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte. This step appeared on the pages of Poroshenko on these social networks.

“Hybrid warfare requires adequate responses to the challenges. Therefore, in order to influence the opponents and counter-propaganda my team used some pages in Russian social networks”, — said in the appeal. “But mass cyber attacks, Russian Federation around the world, in particular the recent intervention in the election campaign in France, indicate that it is time to act differently and more strongly. Ukrainian Internet providers must stop giving access to “Vkontakte”, “Odnoklassniki”, “Yandex” and other Russian services. Official page of the President in these services will be closed. I urge all compatriots to immediately leave the Russian servers because of security reasons”.

This was followed by the official list of the pages Poroshenko in social networks:

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