How can Ukraine make good use of new digital technology to keep Russia from attacking for a long time? The Russian-Ukrainian War has brought out the best of new technologies. In fact, it took Ukraine two years to strengthen its digital resilience. Different from the past wars, the Russian-Ukrainian war no longer uses guns and artillery as the only weapons. Digital technology can be used for defense, and it can be used to attack. An article describes Ukraine's last-ditch battle :
"The Internet is the battlefield, Twitter is the cannon, global phone database hackers are the army, and cryptocurrencies and NFTs are raising military pay... Attempts to block Russia's Internet, economy, and capital chain." Faced with war, Ukraine called on allies to replace it alone. They recruited 300,000 multinational "IT legions" on the Internet to use Telegram as their base to share the location of servers in Russia, and to carry out waves of denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
They also turned to tech giants for help, using Starlink low-orbit satellites to build emergency network communications infrastructure in wartime, and even persuaded Google Maps to stop displaying key road information and add SOS alerts to search services. shutterstock_2057385641 Photo Credit: Shutter Stock/TPG Images In addition, Ukraine has also used cryptocurrencies as a "life-saving money" for people to flee, raised 100 million US dollars in virtual currency donations, and even issued an NFT themed "Meta History: Museum of War" , both for fundraising purposes and with the help of NFT cannot be tampered with, and records the truth of the war to spread to the digital community.