Putin’s historic speech suffers mystery BLACKOUT across Russia as state TV channels go down ‘after huge hack’

Vladimir Putin was blacked out online across his country today as he made a keynote bellicose speech on the war in Ukraine.  The web links of main state channels which are part of All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company [VGTRK ] were hit by an apparent major hacking as he spoke.  Putin blacked out on online state TV across Russia’s 13 time zones APVladimir Putin has addressed Russia amid his failing war in Ukraine[/caption] Instead of Putin’s speech, a  notice on screen announced  ‘Mistake 500’ and that ‘Technical works’ were underway.  There was no immediate official confirmation of  hacking – but it appeared a major problem had hit the state broadcaster.  Blacked out were not online versions of Rossiya-1, Rossiya 24 and Rossiya-Kultura.  Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s team claimed Putin said the  websites of Russian TV channels were subjected to a DDoS attack during Putin’s speech to the Federal Assembly. Radio Mayak – also blocked –  said the web channels were hit by hackers.