Millions of Ukrainians received blaring emergency alerts on their cell phones warning of an imminent nuclear strike on Sunday night in an incident that has been blamed on a hack of air raid warning apps.
\n\nA series of fraudulent alerts on Sunday night told millions of Ukrainian and Russian citizens that they should take immediate action to protect themselves from imminent nuclear strikes. In Ukraine, a chain of messages pushed by the Air Alert app, which British publication The Daily Telegraph notes has 46 million downloads and 7 million daily users began: “Radiation threat. Radiation threat declared in Kyiv. Don’t go outside”.
\n\nThis alert was followed by a second in Russian sent to Ukrainian users, which warned of an imminent strike by a Russian Oreshnik missile — a recent development in Moscow’s arsenal which has already been launched against Ukraine without its nuclear warhead — and advised “A nuclear alert has been activated across Ukraine”. Follow-up messages added there was a chemical weapons attack alert for Kyiv, and that “street fighting” had broken out in the city.
\n\nThis photograph shows a smartphone with its screen displaying notifications from emergency alert app “Air Alert”, in Kyiv, on November 2, 2026, amid…
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