Russia Strikes Ukraine Digital Economy With Attacks on ISPs and Datacentres Disrupting 100,000 Households
Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv data centers and internet providers over September 23-24 disrupted service to roughly 100,000 households, Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation said
The strikes push Russia's infrastructure campaign beyond energy and transport into the digital layer underpinning banking, payments, and public services, raising the stakes for Kyiv's winter resilience planning. Utels' two-hour restoration signals built-in redundancy, while Pautina's loss of nearly half its network exposes uneven hardening regulators must address before further strikes land. Five independently reporting outlets converge closely on outage figures and provider-level damage. Russia's Defense Ministry claim of striking New-Telco and United DC over alleged defense-intelligence ties remains unconfirmed by Ukrainian authorities or independent technical evidence. If repeated, such a claim would recast the campaign as military-utility targeting rather than economic warfare against the digital sector broadly, and supplies Moscow a standing pretext for further strikes regardless of civilian impact.
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- Russia strikes at heart of Ukraine digital economy with attacks on ISPs and datacentres -
The Guardian - Russia puts Ukraine's internet in its sights as attacks on Kyiv infrastructure intensify -
The Kyiv Independent - "Killing Ukraine's internet would take nuclear or chemical weapons"—MiroHost founder whose data center Russia just destroyed -
Euromaidan Press - Kyiv internet providers report major outages after Russian attacks damage data centers -
The Record (Recorded Future News) - Russia's Attacks Disrupt Internet Services to 100,000 Households in Kyiv, Ukrainian Ministry Says -
U.S. News & World Report (AP) - Russian attack on Kyiv data centres disrupts internet -
Ukrainska Pravda