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

⚑ 16 May 2017г. Category: Articles | ❤ 770 | Reviews: 0

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.

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“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:

At the time of writing the news page Poroshenko in the social networks Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki had still not been removed. And access to all mentioned in the Decree of the President of resources has not yet been closed by Ukrainian providers. The Ukrtelecom has already started the procedure for the preparation of blocked sites. About it reported in Facebook , the representative of Ukrtelecom, Mikhail Shuranov. “Work has already begun. They will be carried out in stages and according to preliminary estimates of experts will last from several days to weeks,” he wrote.