Putin's much-publicized speech delayed a massive cyber attack|Putin criticizes the West and announces end to "unipolar world war

 Putin's much-publicized speech delayed a massive cyber attack

Vladimir Putin 

Putin criticizes the West and announces end to "unipolar world war"

In a contradictory speech denigrating the western nations of St. Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the end of the "era of the unipolar world." International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg on Friday.

"When they won the Cold War, the United States declared itself God's representative on earth, people without responsibility - only interests. They declare these interests sacred. Now it is a traffic stop. Which makes the world unstable," Putin told the participants.

The much-publicized speech delayed the "massive" cyber attack by more than 90 minutes. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in an impromptu conference call that the speech had been postponed due to large-scale denial of service (DDoS) attacks on conference systems.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. Ukrainian IT army, hacker team, called St. Petersburg Forum as a target earlier this week on its Telegram channel.