Shaldenko performs computer operations for the defense of his country while locked in a bomb shelter with computer and abnormal service, sleeping in a jargon and sharing space with his dog and mother.
He told Fox News Digital that the website’s name, 200rf, refers to the 2007 Russian horror “Cargo 200. “
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“This is one of the most heartbreaking Russian films,” he said.
The name of the film itself refers to dead in action and evokes some symbolism in Russia, according to Shaldenko.
“Two hundred deaths and all the horrors of war,” he added.
This is opposed to Russian propaganda, which even calls war the invasion of Ukraine, he said.
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“The government and media call this a ‘military operation’ and claim that the action is positioning itself in ‘LDNR,'” he said, an acronym for small separatist regions on Ukraine’s eastern border with Russia.
But Ukrainian cyber agents contradict this narrative by offering the Russian presence in their country.
Putin’s troops entered Ukraine last week following 3 instructions: from the north through Belarus, to the border near the city of Kharkiv and from the south through Russian-occupied Crimea.
A 40-mile-long column of army cars is blocked north of Kiev amid fierce resistance from the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
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The Battle of Kharkiv has been raging for days with increasingly widespread reports of Russian artillery fire on civilian targets. Another war is being fought in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.
The violence had not yet reached Odessa, resources there said sirens from airstrikes had begun to sound and that explosions and gunfire could be heard in the distance on Wednesday.
The number of combat deaths in the first week of the war is unclear.
The Russian government said Wednesday that nearly 500 infantrymen were killed in action. Ukrainian officials said their defense forces killed more than 10 times that. Independent verification not without delay available.
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Ukrainian cyber defenders are a major virtual effort to counter Russian propaganda on other fronts as well. And they try to share very important data with the citizens of the country, ranging from practical guides on how to act in an emergency to how to prepare a Molotov cocktail. .
Shaldenko scholars are even involved.
Hackers inside and outside the country are also conducting cyberattacks and spreading their own data that they hope will make public opinion oppose Putin across the border.
“We distributed anti-war messages, emails, SMS, chats and a comment system,” Shaldenko said. “Our main task is to make the Russians perceive that they can prevent Putin’s regime. “
So far, the invasion, he said, has been “terrifying. ” He said he spent the first 4 days underground. And when he ventured after that, he took a picture of an explosion through his window. But it has been supplied with food and water, and there is electricity and a “very bad connection”. “That allows him to keep fighting.
At one point, he cut off a verbal exchange with Russian bombs exploding in the background. He no longer abandoned the next day.
Despite the chaos, the professor and other cyber warriors are joining forces to fulfill their missions, splitting responsibilities as an IT department, with detailed assignment management, he said. The Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine are coordinating the efforts.
“There is communication and coordination,” Shaldenko said. Everyone has the right to propose their idea, form a team and work. “
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Their efforts to be bearing fruit. Western analysts say Ukraine is being boosted by the public appearances of provocative President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and is winning the data battle.
Michael Ruiz is a Fox News reporter Digital. La story can be sent to michael. ruiz@fox. com and on Twitter: @mikerreports