Hackers Faked Putin TV Speech of Attack on Russia, Kremlin Says

An emergency TV and radio broadcast apparently from President Vladimir Putin announcing that Ukraine had invaded Russia was the result of a hacking attack, the Kremlin said Monday.

Putin “definitely” made no appeal to the nation and the hacked broadcast shown on several networks has been eliminated, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to the state-run Tass news service. There was no indication of who may have been involved and of how the broadcast appeared to include the president’s voice and image.

The video and radio message apparently showed Putin addressing Russians as “brothers and sisters” and declaring martial law ...