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John Demers, a national security official at the Ministry of Justice, told a press conference that the six elements “are accused of launching a series of information attacks that are the most destructive and cause unrest (among the attacks) attributed to a group”.
These pirates are accused of carrying out their operations between 2015 and 2019. The US judiciary says their first operation was an attack on the electricity grid in Ukraine, which deprived the population of heating during the winter.
It is suspected that they subsequently launched an attack with the “Notbetia” virus in June 2017, which infected thousands of computers around the world, causing the disruption of specific functional infrastructures, such as the means of monitoring the site of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl and the ports of Bombay and Amsterdam.
Demers added: “The defendants also supported a hacking operation in the days leading up to the 2017 French elections.”
And in 2018, the Winter Olympics that took place in South Korea were attacked in the absence of the Russian delegation, which could not participate after being accused of doping.
On Tuesday, the Kremlin denounced what it called “anti-Russian sentiment” in the United States after the indictment was announced.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that these accusations are part of “feverish feelings against Russia, which have no obvious connection to reality,” denouncing the “tendency to put all the sins on the shoulders of Russia and Russian special services “.
