KIEV: Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov stated on Wednesday that the cyber-attacks on Ukraine's government websites and banks on Tuesday were the largest in the country's history.

Minister Fedorov was quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency as stating, "All the authorities responsible for cyber security worked to counter these attacks and destroy them." He said, the distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) assaults, which cost an estimated "millions of dollars," were planned ahead of time with the goal of destabilising the situation and sowing fear in Ukraine.

According to Mr Fedorov, the Distributed Denial-of-Service attack on Ukrainian government websites has not yet stopped, but it is under control.

Cyber-attacks targeted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two government-owned banks, Privatbank and Oschadbank, earlier on Tuesday.

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