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Anatoly Hrytsenko, the former Minister of Defence and leader of the party, Civic Position, wrote on his personal Facebook account (in Ukrainian) that his website has been hacked. 

“My personal website was bombarded with DDos-attacks. As well as, the personal website of Tymoshenko, Turchinov and Yatsenyk. The government probably decided to play computer games with the opposition websites in addition to the issue of falsifications. We are working to restore them, but it [the websites] are not being attacked by dummies, but professionals…