'Digital detox. By force': Russia comments on its strikes on Ukraine's data centers
Russian Federation is deliberately striking Ukrainian data centers (photo: Getty Images)
On September 27, Russian authorities effectively acknowledged that they had begun striking Ukrainian data centers.
RBC-Ukraine reports this, citing a statement by the Russian Defense Ministry.
Russia's Ministry of Defense has increasingly been boasting about new attacks during its war against Ukraine.
This time, the Russian ministry published an image of a strike drone with the cynical caption "Digital detox." The photo was also accompanied by a separate comment: "By force!"
Thus, Russia's Defense Ministry effectively acknowledged that it is regularly targeting Ukrainian data centers to deprive civilians of access to the internet.
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published a new cynical comment reading as "Digital detox. By force!" about its assaults on Ukraine (photo: mod_russia)
It is essential to understand that the series of Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers began on September 23.
Strikes on several such facilities in different parts of Kyiv disrupted the operations of Utel and Pavutyna internet providers, online systems of the Knigarnia Ye bookstore chain, and the Fex.NET file-sharing service.
One of the assaults destroyed a data center that housed infrastructure belonging to hosting provider MiroHost. According to the latest data, about 5% of its customers were affected.
The strikes on data centers also forced several Ukrainian TV channels to temporarily suspend broadcasting, including Novyny Live, We-Ukraine and Army TV.
The attacks also affected Suspilne's operations, with video players on the broadcaster's website becoming unavailable.
Earlier, RBC-Ukraine brought together everything known about the impact of Russia's attacks on Kyiv's data centers.
