In the research of features of the new generation of war of the Centre of Global Studies "Strategy XXI" , we introduce the concept of kryptowar. That is the war implicitly, which is not perceived as such - a subwar. This is a hidden form of gradual, systematic and long-term damage to the enemy in order to maximize its potential exhaustion by the time a decision is made about the aggression of the classical or hybrid type. In the case of Ukraine, the main (but not only!) mechanism of cryptowar was gas. Download file.(RU)