14 DAY TRIAL // On October 28, hackers of Anonymous Ukraine announced the start of Operation Independence, a campaign that promotes Ukraine’s independence from the European Union, NATO and Russia.
“Ukrainian citizens realize that signing of the Association Agreement with the European Union, scheduled in November, will lead to the collapse of Ukrainian economy in the near future,” the hackers stated.
“We express our support to the people of our country. We want Ukrainian government and EU leadership to understand that people of Ukraine do not want their country to become a raw material donor to Europe,” they added.
“Ukraine must be free. We do not want to be dependent on other countries or organizations. Ukrainian people do not need a speculative Association Agreement with the European Union. Ukraine does not need to be a part of Russia-led Eurasian customs union. We do not need to be servants of NATO.”
On October 30, the hacktivists behind OpIndependence defaced the websites of Russian in Ukraine (rus.in.ua), Poland’s Chief Sanitary Inspectorate (gis.gov.pl), Russian portal Russkie.org, and Poland’s Zieloni RP party.
Russkie.org has made a statement admitting that its systems and the ones of its media partner Russian in Ukraine have been breached by hackers of Anonymous Ukraine.
Today, the hacktivists have launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against the website of the European Investment Bank (bei.org), the European Union bank.
At the time of writing, the website of the European Investment Bank is inaccessible.
After disrupting the website of the European Investment Bank, the hackers have once again noted that Ukraine doesn’t need a “speculative Association Agreement with the European Union.” The hackers also highlight that they don’t want the country to be dependent on other organizations or other states.
Here is the video in which Anonymous Ukraine announces the start of Operation Independence:
