Ukraine's law cutting off trade has come into effect:
A Ukrainian government order to cut off trade with the Russian-annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea has come into effect.
Civic activists -- many of them from Crimea's Crimean Tatar community -- who have been obstructing road traffic between the peninsula and the rest of Ukraine since late September said most of their activists will return home but some will remain to monitor compliance with the new policy.
The decision to stop trade across the administrative line was adopted by Kyiv on December 16.
Crimea has suffered significant power blackouts since unknown persons sabotaged power pylons supplying the region on November 21. Power was restored following joint efforts by Russia and Ukraine until further sabotage on December 30. (w/ Kyiv Post)
Kyiv says a cyberattack on airport came from Russia, Reuters reports:
A cyber attack on Kiev's main airport was launched from a server in Russia, Ukraine's military spokesman told Reuters on Monday, as the state-run Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warned of the threat of further attacks.
Malware similar to that which attacked three Ukrainian power firms in late December was detected in a computer in the IT network of Kiev's main airport, Boryspil, last week. The network includes the airport's air traffic control.
"The control center of the server, where the attacks originate, is in Russia," military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said by phone, adding the malware had been detected early in the airport's system and no damage had been done.
A spokeswoman for the airport said Ukrainian authorities were investigating whether the malware was connected to a malicious software platform known as "BlackEnergy," which has been linked to other recent cyber attacks on Ukraine. There are some signs that the attacks are linked, she said.
Ukrainian military says no soldiers killed yesterday: