Cyberattack by Ukraine Disrupts Online Voting in Temporarily Occupied Areas
Ukrainian Intelligence carried out a powerful cyberattack on the resources of the Russian Central Election Commission, paralyzing illegal online voting in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
The Gaze reports on it, referring to Interfax-Ukraine.
The attack took place on September 14, 2025, on the so-called “single voting day,” and was aimed at disrupting online voting in the elections of mayors and governors in the Russian Federation.
The DDOS attack targeted key digital resources, including the Central Election Commission's (СEC) servers, the remote electronic voting (REV) platform, Rostelecom's backbone routers, and the servers of the Russian Federation's state digital services portal, Gosuslugi.
As a result, online voting services were temporarily paralyzed, and many Russian citizens were unable to participate in the elections.
Problems with the operation of digital services were confirmed by Roskomnadzor, noting that due to failures in the Rostelecom network, there was a degradation of traffic on the backbone network, which negatively affected the voting process.
“The internet is down in the CEC building – there is an attack,” said Ella Pamfilova, chair of the Russian Central Election Commission. The cyber attack by Ukrainian specialists reportedly made it difficult to hold illegal elections in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
As The Gaze informed earlier, the cyber corps of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine carried out a large-scale operation against Russia's critical infrastructure, blocking fuel cards, attacking the aggressor's telecommunications and online services, and causing significant economic losses.