Experts: Cyber Warfare May Be Used To Start Invasion Into Ukraine

All four cyber military experts Newsy spoke with said Ukraine's military itself would likely be the target of hack attacks.

Experts on cybersecurity are warning that Russia, if it invades Ukraine, would employ cyberwarfare in a way and to an extent never before seen.  

Jim Lewis, a former cybersecruity official with the U.S. State Department, says he believes Russians have pre-positioned hacks on Ukranian networks and before tanks rolled, Russia would pull the cyber trigger. 

"They want to create a mess that preoccupies the Ukrainian government, so it's distracted from the fact that they're being invaded, not that they'll ignore it, but that they'll be overloaded," said James Lewis, with The Center for Strategic and International Studies.