• Ukraine’s Internet has not collapsed under invasion - it has adapted. • This article examines what that reveals about the concept of resilience in the context of Internet infrastructure and the people who keep the networks running. • Defining Internet resilience has never been a purely technical exercise. • It is, at bottom, a question about what we want a network to do under pressure, who is responsible for ensuring it does so, and who bears the cost when it fails. • Ukraine has demonstrated that resilient networks are not simply networks with good hardware. • They are networks embedded in diverse markets, supported by local and international cooperation, separated from hostile dependencies, and ultimately sustained by the resourcefulness of the people who maintain them.

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  • Ukraine’s Internet has not collapsed under invasion - it has adapted. This article examines what that reveals about the concept of resilience in the context of Internet infrastructure and the people who keep the networks running. Defining Internet resilience has never been a purely technical exercise. It is, at bottom, a question about what we want a network to do under pressure, who is responsible for ensuring it does so, and who bears the cost when it fails. Ukraine has demonstrated that resilient networks are not simply networks with good hardware. They are networks embedded in diverse mark

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