EU Parliament victim of cyberattack, spokesman says

The European Parliament's website was hit by a cyberattack on Thursday, a spokesman said, several hours after lawmakers denounced Russia's war in Ukraine.

"The availability of @Europarl_EN website is currently impacted from outside due to high levels of external network traffic. This traffic is related to a DDOS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) event," Parliament spokesman Jaime Duch said in a tweet.

Earlier on Thursday, lawmakers voted to declare Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, arguing Moscow's military strikes on civilian targets such as energy infrastructure, hospitals, schools and shelters violated international law.