President Vladimir Putin’s “emergency call”, broadcast by radio stations in several regions of Russia, is a fake and the result of “hacking”. On this subject declared press attaché to the head of state Dmitry Peskov.
He said the Mir radio station and “some other networks” had been hacked. “Yes, it was a hack indeed. We know that. Now broadcasters are being informed about it urgently, but control has already been restored. All these messages are pure fakes”, RIA Novosti the city.
Press service of MTRK “Mir” confirmed that “unidentified persons have committed an illegal link with the substitution of the content of the news programs of the MIR television channel and the MIR radio”, therefore “all the information broadcast (on the air) from 12:41 p.m. to 1:18 p.m. have nothing to do with the MIR MTRK and is an absolute fake and a provocation Peskov since 2008 son board of directors of this television and radio company.
The statement in question was broadcast in the early hours of June 5 on radio stations in Rostov , Belgorod And Voronezh areas. He said that at 04:00 Moscow time, the armed forces of Ukraine “with the consent and support of Washington invaded the territory of the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions”, therefore martial law is introduced there and the population receives the order “to evacuate deeply” in the country.
“Also today I will sign a decree on general mobilization, because to defeat a dangerous and insidious enemy, we will have to unite all the forces of the Russian Federation. <...> Our border guards and our armed forces give a worthy rebuff to the superior forces of the aggressor. <…> The enemy will be defeated, the victory will be ours,” the “call” read.
Authorities of the Voronezh region assured that “the situation in the region continues to be controlled by the authorities and the forces of order”, therefore “there is no cause for concern”.
Operational headquarters of the Belgorod region urged locals to stay calm and trust only reliable sources. “The purpose of the message is to sow panic among the peaceful inhabitants of Belgorod. <...> In the event of an emergency, all operational information will be promptly published in operational headquarters accounts and other official sources,” the headquarters said in a statement.
In January 2023, following a similar hack, a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy aired on TV-3, STS, TNT and other TV channels in some regions and localities. In particular, on January 25 saw residents of several cities of the Rostov region. The video lasted two minutes and was a video sequence with images of temples, buildings and landscapes, and behind the scenes there was a voice that would belong to the Ukrainian leader.
A day earlier, TV channels broadcasting in Crimea, Krasnodar and Belgorod suffered the same hack. “Cable operators often pick up the signal from the network. When it hurts in the forehead, the Ukrainians break the broadcast on the Internet. Most of the vulnerabilities have already been fixed, and soon there will be none left at all,” commented then the adviser to the head of Crimea Oleg Kryuchkov. Sevastopol Government Press Service claims that “within two minutes (after the hack), the operator switched to a backup channel”, and the situation was brought under control.
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