Ukrainian life is being disrupted more and more each day.
Back in early summer, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky announced a ‘40-day campaign of deep strikes in Russia’ to pressure Russians to end the war.
The inevitable result is that Russian forces increased attacks on all of Ukraine, with combined missile/drone packages targeting not only military but also economic targets.
Responsible Statecraft reported:
“The [Ukrainian] drone attacks have elicited the most severe Russian retaliation yet. Moscow has markedly stepped up its strikes on Ukraine, including one of the largest ballistic missile attacks of the entire war [August 20], at the precise time the United States and Europe are running low on interceptors to defend it.”
Read: Putin Says Kiev ‘Opened Pandora’s Box’ by Striking Russian Economic Targets – Moscow To Hit Back At Ukraine’s ‘Most Sensitive Economic Sectors’ (VIDEOS)
Now, relentless, near-daily Russian strikes have disrupted power and energy, transport, shuttered all the Ports, targeted logistics centers, industry and, lately, data centers.
As a result of the onslaught, almost all Ukrainian TV channels went dark in Kyiv after the data centers were targeted.
Some residents only have access to a few channels, Ukrainian media reports.
Kyiv Post reported:
“Multiple news agencies reported service and broadcast disruptions on Saturday after Russia’s latest attacks on data centers. Cosmonova, a Ukrainian data center, confirmed its main facilities were damaged on Saturday in its Facebook updates, before adding that it’s working to redirect internet traffic and restore the data in backup locations.
Ukrainian outlet Channel 24 reported that the disruption at Cosmonova has affected broadcasts from multiple television and news channels. According to Channel 24, local television channel “We – Ukraine+” – whose affiliated channel was struck by a Russian attack during a live broadcast on Sept. 8 – is currently unavailable, while Army TV is also suffering from the same issue.”
Watch from 2024: TV tower struck by drone.
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“While those attacks affect Ukrainians’ ability to travel and leave the country, strikes on data centers can also potentially affect their ability to receive critical information, as seen during the 2023 cyberattack against major telecom operator Kyivstar, when sirens were not active in certain areas after parts of the company’s IT infrastructure were wiped clean.
A Ukrainian tech consultant told tech outlet dev.ua on Thursday that Russia has been hitting Ukrainian data centers for around three weeks. Four data centers were hit on the same day during an attack on Wednesday, with train service also affected.”
So, after he ‘opened Pandora’s Box’ of economic attacks, Zelensky devotes considerable time to complaining about it.
Today (26), he said the Russian attacks on data centers and internet providers seek ‘to cause maximum disruption for ordinary people’.
BBC reported:
“All this affects people’s ability to stay connected, study, work,” he said. On Friday a Russian drone hit a business center in the capital Kyiv, killing four people and damaging a data center. A separate attack killed a 14-year-old boy. Israel’s foreign ministry said he was an Israeli citizen.
Russia confirmed it had targeted a data center site, saying it was being used by Ukrainian military intelligence.
About 100,000 households in Kyiv and the region suffered internet outages on Wednesday due to strikes. Some firms have already begun moving data from damaged servers to facilities abroad.”
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