no idea why they are not doing cyber attacks themselves, they are always 1st place in the ICPC contests.
A lot of smaller sites dont have the scale to do their own DDoS attack prevention so they resort to using Cloudflare umbrella... including this* SDF site too..
When Protonmail first started it was banned by ebay and getting DDoS'd all the time until they accepted the "security services" of Radware whereby all their users email get routed to/through them first
Ostensibly to improve mobile phone experience, Google encourages all sites to use their AMP service, (its Opt in but if you dont your SEO gets nuked) which is where Google gets to cache a copy of your website on their servers and your readers are directed to Google's version of your site...
Cloudflare, Google, AWS are all American companies beholden to US national security laws and NSLs, and Radware is an American/Israeli "security" firm...
What chance does Russia have? Recall a while back Russia did a stress test to see what happens when US blocks Russia off the Internet, the majority of global Internet traffic routed through the US /Western nations
This morning our corporate internet has RT.com blocked, it wasnt our IT department, we subcribe to a web filter service and they recategorized RT from news to "harmful content"...
The West is fighting for its life, its all in and gloves off now