Ukraine, Kiev: “Weapons arrive late and not the ones we ask for”

The weapons needed by Ukraine to resist the Russian invasion arrive too late and Europe sends the ones that Kiev did not ask for. This is the complaint reiterated by the advisor to the Ukrainian president, Mikhailo Podolyak, who in a tweet points out: 1) Ukraine asks for weapons from Europe. 2) Europeans support appeals to their governments. 3) The EU gives arms to Ukraine, not what we ask for. 4) The weapons take too long to reach. “Conclusion:” Democracy will not win by playing this game. Ukraine needs weapons, not in a month’s time. Now “. Read also In the meantime, over 10 thousand volunteers who have been rescued have registered on the website of the Ukrainian National Emergency Service in order to rebuild the country. They currently work in the Kiev region, especially where the territory has been cleared. It involves reconnaissance, street cleaning, debris dismantling. The State Center for Cyber ​​Defense has registered and repelled a series of large-scale DDOS attacks aimed at disrupting the availability of Ukrainian authorities’ web resources. Experts have established that the attacks were carried out by a large number of botnet hosts hiding in legal traffic from browsers to circumvent the blocking rules. “The attackers performed a two-step cyber operation. During the first phase, they generated a small amount of botnet traffic to test for resource vulnerabilities over several days. The second phase was to generate a large amount of traffic in a short period of time to block access to web resources. The peak power of the attacks exceeded 435 Gbps, “reads the Center’s report cited by Interfax. According to the State Special Communications Service, the attacks were carried out mainly with the help of VPN traffic, masked by different countries , including Ukraine However, such manipulations were detected by specialists and blocked thanks to measures taken to further adapt security policies.