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The brazenness. I honestly wouldn't oppose cutting the Russian internet out from the rest of the world - something Putin himself wanted to do before he realized how much he can hurt "The West" through it.
Of course it could never be 100%. If it's additionally made illegal for VPNs to serve Russian IPs there's still the option of simply buying people's services abroad, but it would still help a lot, esp. since payment happens through the internet as well.
And the one that binds them all: fuck your enemy up, and not just militarily.
It's called hybrid warfare for a reason.
And once again - this is turning into a pet peeve of mine - the headline is misleading. The use of present tense in this case. It evokes an immediate reaction: this is developing right now! But how could they know if it's such a fresh thing? Well, turns out it isn't. The article itself is more honest, uses past tense:
Not saying this isn't newsworthy.
It's a lot easier to cut off your own country from the internet than it is to cut off another country from the internet.
Packets will route through whatever path is available. So even if you cut the wires in the countries within your influence where you border with Russia, other countries that border Russia that you might still want to connect to may not do the same thing.
So physically disconnecting Russia is basically not happening.
No point, not in terms of trying to avoid disinformation campaigns. Russian intelligence is going to be able to get Internet access through a bazillion other sources elsewhere. You just send some people to, say, Kazakhstan or somewhere else that you feel comfortable operating, and go set up your campaign there, probably operate through VPNs to elsewhere to whatever, and then just smoothly transition to your next fallback if things get shut down there. The Internet as a whole is global and is going to be wildly impractical to wall off from anyone who might potentially be working for a disinformation campaign coming out of Russia.
I think that a much more practical route is going to be information sources like France 24 adopting procedures to make themselves harder to spoof and getting software changes and viewer behavior changes onboard with doing whatever's necessary on their end to not fall for a spoofed source. That's also a more-general solution to the problem of spoofing than just "this material might be Russia might be trying to do a disinformation campaign about X". Tomorrow, maybe it'll be a scammer or a scummy political campaign or some other country. Would be better to have a general solution.