Ukrainians And Russians Received Warnings About Nuclear Strikes

Strange reports came in on November 1.

Unidentified individuals hacked into Ukraine’s official “Air Raid Alert” app and sent users warnings about radiation and chemical hazards, as well as the threat of street fighting in Kyiv. One of the messages, which appeared on November 1, was in Russian: “Hi! There’s going to be a nuclear alert across all of Ukraine right now. Don’t worry, Oreshnik is on his way.” After that, the app became temporarily unavailable to users. The Ukrainian Air Force denied the existence of any threats and reported “hostile interference” with the service’s operation. The Center for Countering Disinformation urged users not to click on external links and not to spread unverified information. The app’s developers later stated that they were restoring its functionality.

A few hours later, as reported by The Moscow Times, hackers carried out a “massive attack” on the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations’ mobile app, the ministry reported. On the night of November 2, users began receiving push notifications about “nuclear warheads launched across all regions” of the country. The notifications specified that the warheads were being carried by P1-SUN platforms. This is the name of an FPV interceptor drone developed by the Ukrainian company SkyFall to combat “Shahed”-type drones and cruise missiles. Residents were urged to stock up on food for three weeks and take shelter in basements.

Subsequently, messages with similar content began to be sent out by the channels of regional Emergency Situations Ministry offices via the state messaging app Makh—covering St. Petersburg, the Moscow, Belgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, and other regions. A similar warning was also published on the Telegram channel of the Belgorod Region’s operational headquarters. The Ministry of Emergency Situations stated that it is working to address “a vulnerability in the mobile app and restore its normal functioning.”

“The situation is under control. We ask the public to remain calm and to trust only official sources of information—the EMERCOM of Russia website and the agency’s official social media accounts,” the agency noted.

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