This is a weird post and I honestly did not know where to post it so its going here for now.
I’m writing a paper where I have to compared Putin and Xi Jingping on multiple factors, one of them being how does each president respond to regional threats. I was able to get access to the Chinese Ministry of Defence website very easily, just clicked on the link and I’m golden. When I did the same for the Russian Ministry of Defence I was give a screen saying access was denied, or when using a different app the servers don’t respond at all. When I briefly looked it up the answers I am getting are Kyiv did some sort of hack which may have made the Ministry respond with denying access to non-Russian citizens, or Russia made the Ministry of Defence website inaccessible to unfriendly nations in general.
I was told using the government’s official websites (the the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) was a “scholarly” source so I figured using their defence ministry’s information could be good to use when talking about how they deal with threatening behaviour. I will most likely have to talk about specific situations being dealt with but I thought the Ministry would be the best place to start.
Is anyone else facing this problem? Is there anyway I can get around it? I know I should be using a VPN but I’m hesitant to commit to one right now (I’m not that tech savvy).
https://eng.mil.ru/
UU access denied, and it looks like it was done from Russia’s side because I see lots of Cyrillic that I cannot read
Yeah, the Cyrillic really should have tipped me off as to who was doing the blocking. I don’t blame them, but it is annoying lol
I think, though I am not 100% sure it was in responce done by a DDOS attack done at the begining of the war
When I was looking up why access was denied there were news articles about Ukraine hacking into the Ministry of Defence. These articles are dated from only a few days ago so I guess there was a more recent attack, unless the articles are lying…
Very possible
Can confirm, it denies access
Works for me (residental UK connection)
I’m surprised the UK hasn’t been blocked yet considering the Prime Minister is threatening sending troops. Maybe Canadians are just more annoying.
I guess because nobody goes there. We do block Russia Today since that was actually popular, and we can’t have that.
Canada isn’t blocking Russia Today, such a strange situation tbh… oh well.