Cisco says it has shipped modified switches to Ukrenergo, Ukraine's state-owned electricity grid operator, to help it withstand Russian cyberattacks aiming to disrupt energy infrastructure. We asked Matsyk how Ukraine's communications infrastructure has survived the Russian invasion and what is. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, few people thought of satellite Internet as strategic, but what began as an emergency request made on Twitter became one of the most consequential infrastructure decisions of the war. This campaign dates to the initiation of hostilities in 2014, but intensified in October 2022 after a broader Russian invasion, begun on February 24, 2022.
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