Mon 28 January 2022:
The website of Russian state news agency TASS appears to have been hacked, the Reuters news agency reports, with its regular site replaced with an anti-war message and calls to stop President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We urge you to stop this madness, do not send your sons and husbands to certain death,” the message read, Reuters reported, citing checks from several different devices.
“Putin is forcing us to lie and is putting us in danger…It’s not our war, let’s stop him!” it continued.
When readers tried to access Fontanka, a news outlet based in St Petersburg, on Monday morning, a message signed by Anonymous urged citizens to ‘stop this madness’ and says Vladimir Putin has ‘put us in danger’.
It reads: ‘Dear citizens. We urge you to stop this madness, do not send your sons and husbands to certain death. Putin makes us lie and puts us in danger.
‘We were isolated from the whole world, they stopped buying oil and gas. In a few years we will live like in North Korea.
‘What is it for us? To put Putin in the textbooks? This is not our war, let’s stop it!
Likewise, when readers attempted to access daily newspaper Kommersant’s website on Monday morning, a message appeared saying ‘the site can’t be reached’.
A similar message appeared on news agency TASS’s website, which said ‘an error occurred’.
It added: ‘Sorry the page you are looking for is currently unavailable. Please try again later.’
Some Russian news websites have been criticised for being part of a media offensive from the Kremlin in which Ukraine’s fighters are painted as Nazis and Russia is viewed as a liberating force.
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