How Ukraine is setting up an army of hackers

An army of cyber experts against Russia.

On Saturday 26 February, the number two of the government of Ukraine led by Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as minister for digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, banned the call to cyber weapons in response to the invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, also perpetrated in network with cyber attacks.

In response to the invasion of Russia and cyber attacks, in fact, Kyiv responds by recruiting cyber experts, collecting cryptocurrency donations, and waging a battle against Moscow’s disinformation. The link in the Tweet refers to a Telegram channel, which at the time of writing already had over 125 thousand subscribers. Not all are likely to be computer experts capable of supporting Ukraine’s resistance on the cyber front, given that the channel is also open to the adhesion of simple observers that can do their part.

So far, there are two missions announced on the Telegram channel.