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Inside Ukraine’s open-source war

By Gillian Tett

22 Jul 2022 · 10 min read

A detailed explainer on how Ukrainian techies have adapted digital networks to resist the Russian invasion and what it means for the future of networked warfare.

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Digital networks are helping Ukraine resist the Russian invasion. Will they also reshape the future of conflict?Andrey Liscovich was at home in downtown San Francisco when he saw a tweet from the American politician Marco Rubio: “The #Russian invasion of #Ukraine is now underway.”

He felt sick. The 37-year-old Ukrainian had spent most of the previous decade working far from his native country, including as chief executive officer of Uber Works, a subsidiary of the ride-booking group, before creating his own tech start-up. But Liscovich was born in Zaporizhzhia, on the border of the south-eastern Donbas region now suffering intense Russian bombardments.

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