18,5% українців бракує грошей навіть на їжу

18,5% українців заявляють, що їм не вистачає грошей навіть на їжу, а дозволити собі купити все можуть лише 0,1% громадян. 

Про це свідчать результати дослідження, проведеного Київським міжнародним інститутом соціології.

При цьому 51,3% опитаних сказали, що їм вистачає грошей на їжу, але купувати одяг вже важко. Ще 26,5% заявили, що їм вистачає грошей на їжу, одяг і навіть можуть дещо відкладати; 2,6% сказали, що можуть дозволити собі купувати деякі дорогі речі, а 0,1% – що сім’я може дозволити собі купити все, що захоче. Не змогли визначитися 1% опитаних.

При цьому вірять у те, що через рік їхня сім’я житиме краще, трохи більше 20% опитаних. Так, вважають, що будуть жити набагато краще – 1,9%, дещо краще – 19,7%.

Разом з тим 20,2% українців вважають, що через рік їхня сім’я буде жити трохи гірше, а ще 6,9% – набагато гірше.

Відповідь «так само, як зараз» дали 36,4%. Не змогли відповісти на запитання 14,8%, а 0,1% відмовилися відповідати. Крім того, 22,9% українців вважають себе щасливими людьми, ще 31,1% – сказали: «скоріше так, ніж ні».

Також 25,2% українців на запитання, чи вважають вони себе зараз щасливими, відповіли: «І так, і ні»; 11,1% – «скоріше ні, ніж так», не вважають себе щасливими – 7,6%. Не змогли відповісти на запитання 2% опитаних.

Russia-linked DNC hackers 'targeted Ukrainian army'

Ukrainian national guard troops with a D-30 122mm Howitzer

The Russian hackers who attacked the Democratic National Convention used a variant of the same malware to target Ukrainian troops fighting Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, US security experts have said.  

Crowd Strike, the California-based cyber security firm that investigated the DNC hack, said on Thursday that it had found malware associated with the Fancy Bear hacking group infecting a targeting app used by Ukrainian artillery officers. 

Fancy Bear, or APT 28, is one of two Russian-linked groups that penetrated the DNC computers. Crowdstrike concluded following its investigation that the group is run by the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency.

Adam Meyers, the company's vice president of intelligence, said on Thursday that the company had found a previously unknown Android variant of X-agent or Sofacy, the software Fancy Bear used used to remotely access the DNC’s computers, infecting an app used by Ukrainian soldiers to speed up artillery targeting.

Information gathered by the program, which is used exclusively by Fancy Bear, could have been used by the Russian military to locate and destroy Ukrainian forces, he said.  

 “The ability of this malware to retrieve communications and gross locational data from an infected device makes it an attractive way to identify the general location of Ukrainian artillery forces and engage them,” Mr Meyers wrote in a blog post. 

The infected Android app was originally developed by a Ukrainian artillery officer called Yaroslov Sherstuk to streamline the processing of targeting data for the D30 122mm howitzer, a Soviet-designed artillery piece widely used in the war in Donbas. 

Ukrainian press reports in Autumn 2014 reported that Mr Sherstuk’s application reduced the targeting time for the D30 from minutes to seconds – a potentially life-saving advantage in the artillery duels that have defined the war in east Ukraine. It has reportedly been used by up to 9,000 soldiers. 

The funeral of Volodymyr Andreshkiv, a Ukrainian soldier killed during a surge of fighting near the town of Debaltseve in east Ukraine.  CREDIT: SERGEY DOLZHENKO/EPA

Mr Meyers told the Telegraph that he believes Russian hackers set up a fake social networking site where they tricked Ukrainian servicemen into downloading a contaminated version of the software. 

He said that the malware would have allowed attackers to monitor Ukrainian units' rough position on the battlefield "in real time" using GPS. 

"We believe it was very likely used in that way," he said, adding that drones may have been used to clarify a unit's position once the app had located their approximate whereabouts.  

It is unclear how many servicemen were using a contaminated version, rather than genuine, version of the program.

Mr Sherstuk was dismissive of the Crowdstrike report, writing on Facebook that the article was "delusional and written for amateurs." 

"So it is clear to everyone, distribution of the software is still under my control and is not in the public domain, and the activation is controlled personally by me," he wrote.  "Without any doubts you can continue to download from me personally," he added.

In a later post he advised users to delete older versions of the app. 

The revelation came a day after a report documenting the extent of Russian shelling of Ukrainian territory during the height of the war in the summer of 2014.

Russian artillery fired thousands of shells across the border at targets in Ukraine in at least 149 separate attacks during the summer of 2014, Bellingcat, the citizen journalism and open source intelligence group, said in a report on Wednesday.

At least 9,758 people have died in eastern Ukraine since hostilities broke out between Russian-backed separatists and government forces in April 2014, according to the United Nations.  

Russia publically denies intervening in the war in Ukraine.

Fighting and shelling continues on a near daily basis  despite a nominal ceasefire agreed by Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president, in February 2015. 

Ukraine said at least five of its soldiers were killed during an upsurge of fighting near the town of Debaltseve earlier this week.

 by   Roland Oliphant