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Access to several major Russian state services was disrupted on Tuesday, reportedly due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack “originating from abroad.”

As of the time of writing, outage monitoring site Downdetector showed ongoing disruptions to Russia’s tax service (FNS), as well as services for managing secure digital keys (Goskey) and documents (Saby), among others.

Saby and FNS confirmed that the outages were caused by a large-scale DDoS attack from abroad and said they are working to restore access to their systems.

Russian businesses also reported being unable to access a government service that controls the distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages, as well as the system that tracks the production of certain goods to prevent counterfeiting.