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Of course, we do not wanted and this is exactly why we put forward a proposal to start the negotiation process. with the result should be in agreement of ensuring equal security of everyone, including our country. unfortunately, there was no constructive response to this proposal. another development. ukraine's cybersecurity centre says the defence ministry and two local banks have been targeted by a cyber attack. this was the ukrainian defence ministry's website earlier. this says "the site is under maintenance" in ukrainian. let's speak to our cyber reporterjoe tidy talk us through what we k...

Country's largest commercial banks are, right now, under an apparent cyberattack. let's bring in brigadier general mark -- or alex marquardt first? alex. >> hey, john, yeah, we're hearing -- we're getting word that there has been a cyberattack on at least two significant websites. the ministry of defense. their website is down as well as the website of one of ukraine's largest commercial banks. this is, we are being told, what appears to be what's known as a ddos attack. that's a denial of service attack when attackers make it impossible for folks like you and me to access those websites. for ...

The cyber front because it would be expected that russia would do something in terms of a cyber attack alongside a potential military attack. for now what we know is that there was a cyberattack on at least two different entities. one is the ministry of defense's website and the other is one of the largest commercial banks called private bank. for now, it appears that this was is known as a ddos attack or a denial of service attack. that means when you go to these websites that they don't work. but it does not appear to be that -- anything bigger than that. let's get some perspective from sean...

This is most certainly something attributable to either russian elements or elements that are working on behalf of russia. there are real execution efforts we have to understand where this is coming from. let's put this into context. this is a cyber attack, absolutely. a ddos attack and distributed service attack, it doesn't rank up there with an attack that happened, for example, a month ago. there were 70 ukrainian websites that were impacted by a very severe russian attack and then you go back a few years and the entire power grid was shut down. this is kind of a message, kind of a warning ...

The cyber attack. this is a d dos attack. what that means it - the cyber attack. this is a d dos attack. what that means it is - the cyber attack. this is a d dos attack. what that means it is a l attack. what that means it is a distributed denial of service attack and some people think it is such a low level hacking that it really shouldn't be described as a cyber attack. essentially what you're doing is using a network of computers to flood a web server with requests which bring down a website. i liken it to if you're trying to buy a ticket to the music festival in the uk, the minute that th...