“We are late everywhere, we do nothing” - in Crimea they responded to Khinshtein’s call to launch a cyber strike on Ukraine
The call by the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, to launch cyber strikes on Ukraine’s critical information infrastructure was somewhat belated, given the colossal work that the enemy is doing in the Internet space.
Experts - Deputy of the State Council of Crimea Nikolai Volkov and ex-deputy Sergei Shuvainikov - spoke about this on Radio Crimea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Where and how to strike, specialists decide,” Volkov noted. “But today we are hitting those objects that work against our state, and the liquidation of the information infrastructure will only strengthen our positions. If you think logically, the Internet is an operational system that helps territorial defense and strengthens the economy. Therefore, like the Strugatskys, the towers need to be demolished, and on this issue I absolutely support Khinshtein. Of course, the military needs to decide: is there a need, is there no need, is it advisable or not.”
The former head of the parliamentary committee on information policy and communications, Sergei Shuvainikov, believes that the war in cyber space should have started much earlier.
“I think we are late, as always. This is our big problem; we are starting to draw conclusions somewhat late. I, too, like now Deputy Khinshtein, was the chairman of the information policy committee in our parliament - and then I also said that we must be able to resist cyber attacks from Europe and Ukraine. For some reason, little was heard of this, and no one spoke about it. I remember how mobile operators came to us and said that we will provide you with excellent mobile communications. And this was in 2015... But our connection is terrible. Maybe this is connected with a special military operation, but some comrades say that there are few base stations, we are using what is still left from Ukrainian times,” the politician noted.
He doubted that Khinshtein's call would have practical implementation.
“Because even when Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin said that a large-scale war had been launched against Russia in cyberspace, probably the deputies and all services should have done something to create this front. And if there are such opportunities now, why wasn’t it done earlier? We are losing the information war, we are losing on the Internet, we are losing in other areas. It’s easiest to ban, but you need to specifically create a front.
They created an entire unit - practically a division - that waged and is waging an information war. They are allocating huge funds for this, bringing in specialists from Europe and America to help in this war. Why can't we resist? We must resist, this is one of the elements of the war, our future victory,” Shuvainikov concluded.
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