Russia targeted Ukraine's largest mobile provider, Kyivstar, and multiple data centers over the weekend, disrupting information flow and causing service outages. The attacks wounded civilians, including children.
The attacks on critical communication infrastructure aim to disrupt the flow of information in Ukraine, potentially impacting military coordination, civilian services, and economic activity.
Russia continued its bombardment of Ukrainian data centers and communications infrastructure, hitting the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile service provider, on Sunday, the company told local media. Russia's defense ministry also said on Sunday it hit a data center belonging to Vodafone Ukraine, the country's second-largest cell network provider. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated that Russia struck a data center in Kyiv twice on Sunday morning, wounding two children and an adult. Over the past week, Moscow has also targeted data centers belonging to Ukrainian internet providers, leading to service outages for approximately 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding region, according to Ukraine's digital ministry. Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X on Wednesday that Russia has targeted major Ukrainian data centers, seeking to disrupt the flow of information and emphasizing the importance of rapid alerts about missile and drone threats to save lives.
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