We're living in a post-industrial society, where information, media and the digital world play major parts. So having digital skills is increasingly more important and can help understand the job market as well as get better jobs. Of course, there are always exceptions. If people live and intend to always live in a community that doesn't use any technologies, perhaps these people don't need digital skills. But all others certainly do. But even if you have good skills, it doesn't always mean you can use them and get paid for them.
As for the time of the war, digital skills can be very useful as long as you're in a place where there's Internet. In the current war between Russia in Ukraine, the Internet plays a huge part: people can report the movements of enemy troops via social media, people can take part in cyberattacks on enemy's websites and much more. But some regions have been cut off and without electricity for weeks in Ukraine (I have relatives in a region like that), so digital skills can't help them right now.
The current war that Russia unleashed against Ukraine has its own characteristics associated with the presence of the Internet and the current capabilities of mobile phones, which allow photographing and recording video directly from the places of various events related to the movements and actions of enemy troops. Many bots have been created in Ukraine, the information of the population of which greatly helps the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the destruction of the occupiers. Any provocations, denial of war crimes and genocide of the Ukrainian people are immediately refuted by photos and videos that come from eyewitnesses of these events both to the social network and channels created by the Ukrainian authorities.
For example, on April 9, the Russian military fired Tochka-U missiles at the railway station in the city of Melitopol, where the civilian population was being evacuated to safer regions of the country. As a result, 52 people were killed, mostly women and children, and 109 people were injured. The Russians themselves immediately boasted on the social network that they hit the railway station in Melitopol, where the Ukrainian military was allegedly concentrated. After the actual results of the shelling were made public, they began to delete these messages, however, screenshots of their messages have been preserved. At the same time, eyewitnesses to Russian-occupied Shakhtyorsk showed a video of the launch of two rockets that were taking off at the time. Then Russia began to deny that they had these missiles in service at all. But the very next day, the remnants of such missiles were recorded, which flew to Ukraine both from the territory of Russia and from Belarus. In addition, telephone conversations of the occupiers are constantly intercepted, where they themselves confess to what the official propaganda in Russia denies. Satellite surveillance also renders great assistance to Ukraine. The fixation of various events by foreign countries makes it possible to break up the false information of the occupiers. The war is actually being waged online, where it is quite difficult to hide anything from the public.