Problems with mobile operator signals and internet connections were the result of DDoS attacks, Acting Deputy Head of Kursk Region Oksana Krutko reported, TASS reports .
“The situation in the Kursk region remains tense, including problems with the mobile signal of cellular operators, internet connection due to the fact that DDoS attacks are being carried out on internet resources in waves, which are nevertheless successfully repelled by our specialists,” Krutko said.
The Ministry of Digital Development reported that communications and mobile Internet in eight districts of the Kursk region will be available free of charge until the end of the emergency regime declared in the region. We are talking about Belovsky, Bolshesoldatsky, Korenevsky, Glushkovsky, Lgovsky, Sudzhansky, Rylsky and Khomutovsky districts.
In order for residents of these districts to stay in touch, Megafon has lifted all restrictions on incoming and outgoing calls, as well as on the use of mobile Internet with a zero or negative balance. Tele2 and Beeline have also made basic communications services free for customers in the Kursk region.
On August 8, the press service of the Kursk Region government announced that the region’s official Internet resources had been subjected to a massive DDoS attack. As a result, many services were out of order and temporarily unavailable.
Kursk Oblast has been under massive attacks from Ukraine since the early morning of August 6. On the third day after the Ukrainian armed forces began to break through into the region, fighting continued in the border Sudzhansky and Korenevsky districts.
Fighting in the Kursk region continues in the border Sudzhansky and Korenevsky districts. The Russian troop group “North” is operating there together with the FSB agencies.
