Trump confirms the US cyberattack on Russia

These are days of first times for Donald Trump: the first appearance in public wearing a mask and the first confirmation of a cyber attack carried out by the United States against Russia. The action, dating back to 2018 and more precisely to the period of the medium-term elections, targeted the Internet Research Agency, a company believed to be close to Moscow and responsible for part of the interference detected in 2016 before the elections that brought the tycoon to the White House.

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The President spoke about it saying that the US "stopped Russia". The details of the transaction were not disclosed. Trump also erroneously added that his predecessor Barack Obama has never moved on this front. In fact, in December 2016, a few weeks before handing over the desk of the Oval Office, it imposed sanctions and expelled 35 intelligence workers from American territory precisely as a result of what happened a few months earlier.

The confirmation of the The attack constitutes a radical change of attitude for Trump, who in the past has repeatedly denied that there has been interference from Moscow in the US democratic process, despite having been documented from many sides and in depth.

Impossible to predict the reaction of the Kremlin, but in all probability there will be interventions, considering how Russia has never confirmed the associated between the institutions of the country and the activities of the Internet Research Agency , which officially is a private company with headquarters in St. Petersburg. That said, Washington has already deployed a task force in view of the call-up to the polls scheduled for the autumn, so as to prevent it from happen again what happened four years ago.

Source: The Washington Post