Ukraine Cyber Project

Ukraine Cyber Chronology

Over 320 pages!

"A fantastic resource" – Risky Business

This chronology of Russia's war in Ukraine goes beyond events on the ground to track government decisions; state and private sector threat assessments; global implications and trends; lessons learned; and analyses of the future of cyber conflict.

Clickable links will take you to hundreds of government records, commercial cybersecurity reports, specialty trade publications, and mainstream media accounts.

We will have frequent updates. Tips, leads, corrections welcome. Please send to nsarchiv@gwu.edu. Click the image above to see the timeline.

Featured Posting

BALTIC GHOST: Supporting NATO in Cyberspace

Update

Washington, D.C., November 3, 2026 – Five years after our posting on the BALTIC GHOST cyber defense tabletop exercises, the effort to bolster collective…

Nov 3, 2026

Previous Postings

Nuclear Weapons and Ukraine

Dec 5, 2019

Cyber Brief: GRU Cyber Operations

Jul 18, 2018

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About this Project

Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine confronted the world with the first major regional military conflict expected to feature a significant cyber component. As the war winds on, questions have only deepened about how state-backed cyber activity meshes (or merely co-exists) with kinetic warfare.

A subset of the National Security Archive's Cyber Vault, the Ukraine Project aims to identify, aggregate, and curate a wide array of resources that will help experts and students alike to understand and assess the cyber component of this conflict. The project has already filed dozens of declassification requests under the Freedom of Information Act, aggregated many publicly available decision documents, studies, and reports from governments and the private sector, and continues to build an in-depth timeline (see right column) tracking not only events on the virtual battlefield but policy-making developments, the emergence of new threat actors, and especially trends in expert analysis of the conflict and its implications for the cyber sphere.

Users are invited to send information, materials, or ideas that will help us heighten the value of this site.

Blog Posts

Weekend Read: Critical Resources on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Documents on NATO Expansion, Putin’s Rise to Power, and Russian Cyber Tactics

Mar 4, 2022

Unredacted Ukraine Emails Show FOIA Exemption 5 Abuse, Court Rules Contractor Diversity Data Can’t be Hidden by Exemption 4, and More: FRINFORMSUM 1/13/2020

Jan 13, 2020

Unearthing Soviet Secrets in Ukraine’s Archives

Nov 13, 2017

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