Verkhovna Rada deputy Yuriy Levchenko from the nationalist Svoboda party issued a panicked statement regarding Tuesday's events.
Subscribe to PolitNavigator news at Telegram, Facebook, Classmates or In contact with
“Today Ukraine received two strong blows: the murder of the commander of the GRU special forces of the Ministry of Defense and a powerful cyber attack on key companies in the country: Oschadbank, Ukrzaliznytsia, Boryspil, Kyivenergo, Ukrenergo, Ukrposhta, Nova Poshta, Ukrtelecom and a number of smaller enterprises.
We are dealing with systematic, continuous terrorism (or even total war on the part of the Russian Federation), which aims to hit the economy, disorient society, and cause panic and fear. This is also a hint that any figure that is unfavorable to the Kremlin can be “removed.” If an intelligence officer who was collecting evidence about the Russian invasion was already killed in the center of Kyiv, then blowing up some deputy or official is unlikely to be a problem,” the Tyahnibokovite laments.