No radio, no electricity, no Internet: Russia also wanted to bring Ukraine to its knees in cyberspace. But the country stayed online – and even fought back. How do they do it?
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Max Mut
On a Sunday evening in June, millions of Ukrainians sat in front of the television screens and watched as their team tried to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar against Wales. But commentator Viktor Vatsko has a different topic at the moment: “I hope you stay away from football until the end of your days, you bastards“He rumbles. The addressees of his curse are the Russians, whose footballers are excluded from Fifa tournaments because of the war. A few minutes earlier, suspected Russian hackers had hacked the streaming channel Oll.TV. The viewers who watched the game on Oll.TV wanted to follow, therefore saw Russian TV propaganda for a few minutes instead of the bitter 1-0 defeat against Wales.A few days later, a tit-for-tat response follows.The stream of the Russian radio station Kommersant FM, which belongs to Putin ally Alisher Usmanov, suddenly begins play the Ukrainian anthem and a Russian anti-war song.