Drones attack communication centers in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk: Footage
Drones attack communication centers in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk (photo from social media)
Ukrainian drones attacked communication centers in the occupied cities of Luhansk and Donetsk, according to Exilenova+.
In Donetsk, on October 20, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the Ugletelecom data center.
Meanwhile, drones attacked occupied Luhansk on the night of October 21. The building housing the Lugacom telecommunications operator (formerly Ukrtelecom) and the Telecommunications Services Center was hit.
Both buildings sustained significant damage.
Photo: aftermath of strikes on communication centers in Donetsk and Luhansk (Exilenova+)
Photo: aftermath of strikes on communication centers in Donetsk and Luhansk (Exilenova+)
These centers provide mobile communications, internet access, and data transmission services in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Strikes on data centers in Russia
On October 18, Ukrainian FP-1 drones attacked the VKontakte data center in Russia's Leningrad region.
On the night of October 14, the Sberbank mega data center in Balakovo, Saratov region, Russia, came under attack.
On the night of October 11, drones disrupted the operation of a Yandex data center in Russia's Vladimir region, after which dozens of services across the country stopped working. The company itself acknowledged that the facility had gone offline.
Earlier, on October 8, the largest Yandex data center in the Ryazan region came under attack, sparking a major fire. On the same day, the company hastily removed its data centers in four Russian regions from its maps.
