2022/02/15: In this photo illustration, a This site can't be reached message is seen on Ministry of Defence of Ukraine official webpage displayed on a smartphone screen and flag of Ukraine in the background.
In this photo illustration, a This site can't be reached message is seen on Ministry of Defence of Ukraine official webpage displayed on a smartphone screen and flag of Ukraine in the background.Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

A suspected cyberattack shut down a handful of Ukraine's government websites on Wednesday.

The websites of Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cabinet of Ministers, and Rada — or Parliament — all experienced outages around 5 p.m. local time in Kyiv.

As of 6 p.m. local time, all three websites appeared to be restored. 

Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov wrote in a Telegram post that the outages were caused by a DDOS attack, according to NPR correspondent Jenna McLaughlin.

Ukraine's government was hit last month by a massive cyberattack, which a top Ukrainian security official blamed on Russia. 

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