MOSCOW, March 9. /TASS/. Moscow’s radio stations and television channels on Thursday broadcast false air raid alerts after their servers were hacked, Moscow’s office of the Emergency Situations Ministry told TASS.

"As a result of a hacking attack on the servers of radio stations and television channels, a false air raid alert has been issued in Moscow. Moscow’s office of the Emergency Situations Ministry is hereby informing that the alert is false and isn’t real," the agency said.

A similar incident occurred on February 28 when false air raid alerts were issued in 15 Russian regions.

Earlier on Thursday, a false air raid alert was broadcast on radio and television in the Sverdlovsk Region after the servers used by the broadcasters were hacked.