Critical Infrastructure Resilience in Ukraine: Energy, Transportation, and Communication

Author(s): Simon Aebi, Andrin Hauri, Jurgena Kamberaj
Editor(s): Andrin Hauri
Series: CSS Risk and Resilience Reports
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2024

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent targeted attacks on critical infrastructure (CI) have put the country and its population under immense pressure. However, Russian interference with Ukrainian CI did not begin in 2022 but goes back at least as far as 2014 and the events surrounding the annexation of Crimea. In the aftermath of 2014, various political and legislative processes related to the protection of CI were initiated or accelerated in Ukraine, culminating, for example, in the first comprehensive legislation on the protection of CI, which came into force in November 2021.

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