KIEV, Oct. 1 – Kiev-based Forum Bank has claimed that there has been an information attack against the bank: since the start of September, Ukrainian mass media have published bad and untrue information about the bank, reads a press release of Forum Bank.

"Over less than 20 days, the number of reports and reprints exceeded one hundred. The main points of the articles concerned the allegedly troubled financial state of the bank," reads the press release.

Forum Bank Board Chairman Yaroslav Kolesnyk said that the information attack was deliberate.