, this is not a wait and see situation for Bay Area companies who have employees working in Ukraine. Some are being moved away from the Russian border.
Ukraine's 41 and a half million people are well aware of the military buildup along its eastern border with Russia. The threat is a big concern for San Francisco's"A lot of our engineering, a lot of our critical functions are done there," said CEO Andy Kurtzig."So it's very scary, and even more scary on a personal level because these are all our friends."
We connected with Nadya Semen, JustAnswer's country manager based in Lviv near the border with Poland. She believes Russia has already initiated cyberattacks."We are experiencing a set of cyberattacks on different websites and banking system and some governmental websites were down. So it's weird," she said."Two times during class for weeks, I had to pick up my kid from school because someone called that there is a bomb in the school," she said.
JustAnswer has developed its own action plan. It puts the current threat level at moderate to high because of some military activities. As the threat rises to high and to realized threat, that will initiate more action to protect its workers."We are moving people from the east to the west as we speak and give them time of and putting them up in hotels and then actively helping them move across the country from the more dangerous parts of Ukraine," CEO Kurtzig said.
Stress levels are rising. School children are drilled about evacuating to shelters, which frightened Nadya's daughter.
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