Sounds like their message. Next thing Russia will do is put some ransomeware up there and claim they don't know who did it.

Exactly. Putin on nuclear options:

“Certainly, it would be a global disaster for humanity; a disaster for the entire world,” Putin said, in an interview for a Russian documentary “The World Order 2018,” adding that “as a citizen of Russia and the head of the Russian state I must ask myself: Why would we want a world without Russia?”

https://www.rt.com/news/420715-putin-world-russia-nuclear/