Thus, Olesya Lisovska, head of communications at the Ministry of Statistics, talked about whether cybercriminals were involved in the failure of Diya.

What is the reason for the failure in action?

Olesya Lisovska noted that cybercriminals were not involved in the failure of Diya during the voting for the winner of the National Election.

The communicator of the Ministry of Statistics stated that the reason for the failure was an excessive number of requests from those who simply wanted to vote. The system could not cope with this.

Fedorov told what happened

• The head of the Ministry of Statistics announced on February 3 that Diya had a record number of users in the history of the project.
• During the 2023 vote, the app received 800 requests per second. Meanwhile, 15,000 requests in 2024.
• Mykhailo Fedorov apologized for the situation and emphasized that a detailed analysis and analysis would be carried out on Diya. According to the data received, organizational changes will be made to make the application ready for similar traffic waves.
• “Together, we are writing the history of the fastest and most comprehensive development of the digital state in the world. Let’s go through it, fix it, move on to the next stage. The situation has already stabilized and in a few hours everything will be fine. It is fully operational and everyone who wants it is now, at night and tomorrow can vote during the day. Thank you “, the minister said on the evening of February 3.
• Please note that the voting results will be announced on February 4 at 19:05.