Mixed results for Russia’s aggressive Ukraine information war, experts say

A top Ukrainian cybersecurity official said this week that the Russian campaign to wrest control over internet and phone networks in occupied Ukraine continues to grow, even as Russian forces intensify their shelling of telecommunications infrastructure. A former senior leader of U.S. Cyber Command said the Russians are narrowing Ukraine’s cyberspace and physical terrain simultaneously. It is also replacing many media outlets with branches of Russian state media. But Russian information war objectives have been thwarted to a large degree by international private sector enterprises like the Starlink satellite internet constellation and by the fact that many Ukrainians have virtual private networks (VPNs), White said.

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