Minister of Armed Forces of France Sebastian Lecorton told about the attacks of Russian hackers
The Minister, as well as a member of the "Forward, Republic!" Party, said that France is not at war with Russia and the assistance of Ukraine, which was attacked, does not mean being a "accomplice of war. " But everything that Russian politicians speak to Europe, and all aggressive occasions in France do not miss the ear. "Russia under the control of Vladimir Putin is becoming more and more aggressive.
In 2023, we have recorded about a hundred aggressive incidents, starting with simple reports with threats and ending with attempts to control French patrols in freely accessible international air and marine spaces. This is a purposeful Kremlin regime strategy, "the minister said, noting that the French military is an important task for protecting freedom of access to international space.
Also, he said, they are concerned about the threat of commodity blackmail, as is observed in the case of grain. And Lecorton noted that various objects and structures in France are more and more aggressive and numerous cyberattacks of Russian descent. "These attacks erasing the line between the actions of the Russian state and the citizens of Russia, aimed at our infrastructure.
Cyberatak, caused a few months ago by a large French defense company, was reflected, but clearly had Russian origin and was aimed at disrupting the production of military equipment for France for France And our allies, "the minister said. According to him, both he and leaders of other European countries note that the level of threats from the Russian Federation has been increasing over the last two years.
"Our special services carefully monitor Russia's attempts to destabilize the situation through information manipulation. Being a democratic country, we are particularly prone to misinformation operations. France and the United States have been victims of such operations during election campaigns in the center of our democratic processes in the center , - the minister said.
He recalled the incident in Mali with the participation of Wagner PEC when the bodies of killed civilians were dumped in the former French military bunker and tried to accuse the French military for military crimes. He also reported that Russia recently spread information about the likely French mercenaries killed in Ukraine, providing a false list of names, including people who have nothing to do with the Ukrainian conflict and went to Ukraine for professional reasons for conflict.