Europe | Stealth bombers

The cyberwar in Ukraine is as crucial as the battle in the trenches

So far, no one is winning

Illustration of user name and password fields on a blue background. The login button is a red detonator from the army.
Illustration: Sergiy Maidukov
|Kyiv

There is nothing to identify who is inside the office building in Kyiv, but the Russians do not need a nameplate to tell them. Windows on its higher floors are still smashed from a drone attack last summer on the nerve centre of Ukraine’s cyber-defence operations. Both sides are locked in combat to steal intelligence and sow panic by attacking telecommunications, critical infrastructure, military computers and whatever else they can hack into. 

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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “As crucial as the battle in the trenches”

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