KIEV, Nov. 17 – The Ukrainian file hosting service ex.ua has announced its decision to terminate its operations and asked all users to remove the files from their archives on ex.ua before November 30, 2016.

"Ex.ua resource has decided to terminate its operations. In the past year ex.ua faced direct threats and blackmailing [including at the national level] and DDOS attacks. These actions jeopardize personal information and personal files of users stored on the resource," ex.ua said in a statement posted on its website on Wednesday.