Is the Russian Federation Targeting Communications Infrastructure?

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It takes a lot of civilian infrastructure to run an Internet. Yet when I email or WhatsApp with my friends in Kyiv, everything seems okay. And so I just... Why is this happening? No, it's a great question. One of the big expectations for the beginning period of the war was that communications infrastructure would be specifically targeted by the Russian Federation. But we all really expected that that was going to happen at the very beginning of the war,. and it didn't happen.

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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