Are They Destroying the Civilian Communications Infrastructure?

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The buildings are well within what a military can destroy if it particularly is interested in doing it. It seems to me like the reason why it continues to exist is because for whatever reason they haven't prioritized destroying it. At least in places like Kiev, it gets more complicated as you get out to cities further east where there's much more heavy infrastructure damage. One possible reason for this is that they still think they're going to capture it all.

Matt Tait is a cybersecurity expert who has worked both in the private sector and for the British government at GCHQ, the UK's intelligence, security, and cyber agency. He's also a Lawfare contributor. Like a lot of us, Tait has spent the last several months thinking about Ukraine, and Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes had cybersecurity questions for him. They talked about why the Ukrainian internet is still functioning and why the Russians have been so ineffective in the cyber arena. They also talked about whether U.S. support for Ukraine is threatened with Republicans in control of the House and what the Biden administration is going to do about Section 702, which is scheduled to expire at the end of next year.

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