"We’re not sure exactly what happened. But there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the X system, with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area," said the platform owner and advisor to the U.

Social media site X went offline yesterday, and now billionaire owner Elon Musk has blamed the ‘massive cyber attack’ on Ukraine. ‘We get attacked every day’, Musk said in a post on the platform yesterday. ‘But this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, co-ordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …’

Ukraine was not involved in the "massive cyberattack" Musk reported, the chief of Kyiv's Foreign Affairs Committee told Newsweek.