How technology has shaped a year of war in Ukraine.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty-Kareno.

This month marks a year since Russia invaded Ukraine.

The toll has been devastating, cities turn to rubble, a staggering death toll, and just

as with every war, this one has often turned on technological advances.

It can be grim to consider the dark side of innovation, but we wanted to look beyond

traditional motions of military might at how technology off the battlefields is helping

Ukraine fight back.

I spoke to Stephen Feldstein, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International

Peace.

He says some of the biggest advantages have been in arenas like cybersecurity.

It's one of those things where guaranteeing and trying to ensure that your communications

are encrypted, that they won't be penetrated by the enemy, that you're able to securely

give orders and so forth is extremely important.

And so to that end, Ukraine has partnered with many international tech companies, Cloud

Flair, Microsoft, and others to try to build resilience in its systems, but it's a really

critical piece to this whole thing.

Right, I think in the run-up to this, there was a lot of expectation that this was an

area that Russia would really excel with, has Ukraine proven more resilient than expected

with cybersecurity?

I think that's right, but I think a lot of things changed partially.

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