From Jenna Orkin

“War is not what it used to be,” Remnick wrote. Under Putin’s control, Russia’s armed forces have practiced the modern art of hybrid warfare. “Putin could certainly flatten much of Kyiv and other Ukraine cities in days, but he can render them helpless through other means: cyberattacks, false-flag operations, assaults on the electrical grid, the water supply, the banking system,” Remnick noted. As the conflict escalates, there are already reports of cyberattacks on Ukrainian banks and ministries. As the historian Stephen Kotkin put it, “You turn a country off.”

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