A major Russian radio station was hacked and started broadcasting Ukraine's national anthem and anti-war songs
The attack was directed at Russian radio station "CommerantFM". It's a rapid lift. This anti-war package included the Russian rock band Nog Svelo in their song "We Don't Need a War". The latest cyberattack after the Russians entered Ukraine that began on Wednesday.
The lunch news bulletin on Kommersant FM, the radio broadcaster of the Kommersant newspaper, was abruptly interrupted by the Ukrainian military song, “Oh the red viburnum in the meadow.” BBC Monitoring reporter Francis Scarr reported.
Alexey Vorobyov, editor-in-chief of Kommersant FM, confirmed to state-run news agency Tass that the online stream had been hacked and started broadcasting Ukraine's national anthem and anti war songs.
Stating "We were really hacked. Technical specialists are now figuring out the origin of this attack and trying to do something about the internet flow"
Kommersant is owned by the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, the fifth richest person in Russia, whom the EU described as “one of Vladimir Putin’s favorite oligarchs.” Usmanov was sanctioned by the United States and the European Union following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The incident is the latest in a series of stunts in which Russian media programs were interrupted with anti-war messages.
In mid-March, an editor at the leading Russian state-owned television station Channel One stormed his network’s live broadcast with signs saying “Do not believe the propaganda” and “They are lying to you here.”
Last month, Russian television broadcasts were hacked to show anti-war messages on the same day that the country celebrated a national military festival. A message read, according to BBC Monitoring: “On your hands is the blood of thousands of Ukrainians and their hundreds of murdered children.”
Also in May, three radio stations in St. Petersburg played Ukrainian songs and anti-war songs for more than two hours, according to the Russian publication The Insider.