As another cold winter approaches, the concern of Ukrainians is how to keep the lights on.
For this reason, Ukraine's power grid operator has secretly imported custom equipment designed to withstand Russian electronic warfare attacks with the help of US officials.
CNN reports that engineers at US tech giant Cisco spent weeks building and testing the new devices in a lab in Austin, Texas, and delivered a prototype to Ukraine in the spring with the help of a US Air Force plane carrying humanitarian aid. , according to Cisco.
After Ukraine's state-owned grid operator Ukrenergo quietly confirmed the new equipment worked despite Russian attacks on its GPS systems, Cisco shipped dozens of pizza-box-sized hardware kits worth about $1 million to Ukraine.
They were installed all over the country. The new, previously unknown equipment could be a lifesaver for Ukraine's power grid, which remains the main target of Russian attacks.
Russian missile and drone strikes over the past two years have destroyed about 40% of power substations and related equipment.
In a rare cyber attack that has just become public, hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence agency GRU caused a blackout in Ukraine in October 2022. (A2 Televizion)
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