Yarema Dukh, a press officer for Ukraine’s president, tweaks Russia on the @Ukraine Twitter feed he writes with two colleagues. The @Ukraine versus @Russia battle pits one of the world’s cyberwarfare superpowers against the three nerdy Twitter comedians behind @Ukraine. The low-budget effort is run by Yarema Dukh, 30, and a colleague who have full-time jobs as press officers for Ukraine’s president, and a third volunteer. @Ukraine replied with a clip of Jimbo Jones, a cartoon bully from “The Simpsons,” captioned “WRONG WAY, DINGUS.”This is all new for Ukraine. When a Russian account in August boasted about Crimea’s recent economic development, @Crimea, an account run by Mr. Dukh and his colleagues, shot back: “Guys, it’s really time to try something new.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 20, 2017 19:30 UTC