After the Vatican website was down for several hours on Wednesday due to a suspected cyber attack, Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See, Andrei Yurasch, blamed Russian hackers for the attack.
“Russian hackers are showing the true colors of Russia’s policy, which is terrorist,” Jurasch wrote in a tweet after Pope Francis previously criticized Russian ethnic minorities in the war in Ukraine. The alleged cyber-attack was likely in response to the pope’s latest important statements. The Vatican website is now accessible again.
Vatican websites offline for hours
“Technical investigations are underway into unusual attempts to access the website,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said on Wednesday afternoon. Several Vatican websites were offline for several hours on Wednesday afternoon. The official website vatican.va was still unavailable in the evening.
In an interview published Monday, the pope said the “cruelest” in Russia’s offensive war against Ukraine may be those who are “not of Russian tradition, such as the Chechens, the Buryats and so on.” Russia was outraged by the Pope’s statements.
Source: Krone
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