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Today on WIRED     February 28, 2022 Ukraine's Volunteer 'IT Army' Is Hacking in Uncharted Territory By Matt Burgess Vladimir Putin's attack  on Ukraine  has been met with fierce resistance throughout the country's towns and cities. As  Russian forces have moved closer to Kyiv , lawyers, students and actors have  taken up arms  to defend their country from invasion. They are not the only ones: Volunteers have also flocked to join a Ukrainian volunteer "IT Army" that's fighting back online.   At around 9pm local time on February 26, Ukraine's deputy prime minister and the minister for digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, announced the creation of the volunteer cyber army. "We have a...

Today on WIRED     February 25, 2022 Europe Is Scrambling to Turn Its Back on Russian Oil and Gas By Chris Stokel-Walker When the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 project was announced in 2015, it promised a brave new energy future for Europe. Criss-crossing under the Baltic Sea from western Siberia to make land in Germany, it assured Germany—and the tight-knit European energy market, through which natural gas supplies cross borders with ease—guaranteed supply. Nord Stream 2 was  built to bypass Ukraine , in a move designed by Russia to add economic pressure to the country following a partial invasion of the country's east in 2014. Russia's gas supply contracts through Ukraine are up for renewal in 2024, and Russia seems mind...