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    KYIV, Feb 15= (Reuters) - The online networks of Ukraine's defence ministry and two bank= s were overwhelmed on Tuesday and Ukraine's information security centre poi= nted the finger at neighbouring Russia.
    "It is not ruled out that the aggressor used tactics= of little dirty tricks because its aggressive plans are not working out on= a large scale," the Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communications and Info= rmation Security, which is part of the culture ministry, said in a statemen= t.
    Kyiv has blamed Moscow for = similar actions in the past and since Russia began massing more than 100,00= 0 troops near the frontier, raising East-West tensions as the West fears Ru= ssia is planning to attack Ukraine, which Moscow denies. read more
    The type of disruption reported by Ukrainian author= ities on Tuesday is known as a distributed denial-of-service - often abbrev= iated DDoS - but the scale of it wasn't immediately clear. The manoeuvre, w= hich works by directing a fire hose of internet traffic from a multitude of= sources against one set of servers or another, is a common across the inte= rnet and such attacks happen periodically in Ukraine and beyond.
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    A message on the home page of the U= krainian defence ministry website said it was under maintenance. The minist= ry tweeted that its website was apparently under a cyberattack and it was w= orking on restoring the access to it.
    Oshadbank confirmed the cyberattack saying that it res= ulted in slowing down of some of its systems. The strategic communications = centre said that Privatbank users also had problems with payments and a ban= king app. Privatbank did not immediately comment.
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    San = Francisco-based Cloudflare, a prominent provider of denial-of-service prote= ction, said that it had seen no evidence of "large DDoS activity" in Ukrain= e against its data centres or customers there.
    "From our perspective today hasn't seen unusu= al attack traffic against us or our customers on Ukraine," the company said= in an email.
    The= United States and its allies have indicated that they are prepared to resp= ond to Russian digital incursions, even if details remain sparse.
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    White House press secretary Jen Psaki said there were "a range = of means that we could respond - both seen and unseen - to a cyber attack o= r any other attack."
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    Reporting by Natalia Zinets and Raphae= l Satter; writing by Maria Tsvetkova and Raphael Satter; Editing by Peter G= raff and Grant McCool

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