EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton — who is pressuring social media companies to counter Russia’s disinformation — gives a speech
on Feb. 8, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
Russia — in its Soviet incarnation — was the source of Ukraine’s infrastructure. Postwar pipes for everything from water to telecommunications in Ukraine is Russian in origin.
A worker assembles a Toyota Motor Corp Crown vehicle on the production line of the company’s Motomachi factory on July 30, 2018 in Toyota, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
A protestor holds a Ukrainian flag during a demonstration against the ongoing war in Ukraine in front of the Russian Embassy on Feb. 27, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images)
A painting on a house wall near the Russian’s embassy in Rome on Feb. 24, 2022, made by a street artist. (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)
The White House ordered Commerce and Homeland Security to examine weak spots in how the IT and communications industries produce hardware and software.