Russia's Drones Zero In On Ukraine's Data Centers, Mobile Providers
The Russian defense ministry on Tuesday indicated that it attacked and struck two military cargo vessels in the Black Sea as well as two data centers in the Ukrainian capital overnight.
The vessels, which were sailing foreign flags, were struck off Odessa, President Zelensky also confirmed in a Tuesday statement.
DSNS Ukraine
The Kyiv region along with ten other areas came under attack overnight, Zelensky acknowledged. But it is the capital which has been getting pounded, also following many weeks and months of Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian territory.
On Monday at least two people were killed when a drone hit National Academy of Sciences in the central part of the capital. The academy in a statement blasted the attack as "Russian terror" and "barbarity" aimed at "peaceful people who were simply at their workplaces."
A couple of new 'themes' have emerged in what have long been a nightly reality of devastating air raids. First, high flying jet-powered drones have been increasingly deployed by Russia.
The new Geran-5 is said to have anti-jamming capabilities and can travel up to an estimated 370mph, reports say. All of this makes them extremely hard to intercept.
Another theme is the war on data centers and mobile infrastructure. One regional source cited the Russian Defense Ministry as calling the campaign a 'mandatory digital detox' with grim sarcasm.
The same source documents the following recent attacks on data centers in Ukraine:
At the start of this week Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile service provider, according to a statement by the company.
Reports of at least seven total killed and over 50 injured in the capital on Monday amid the major attack:
Additionally the Russian military had on Sunday announced hitting a data center belonging to Vodafone Ukraine, which is Ukraine's second-largest cell network provider - all of which strongly points to the campaign on comms infrastructure set to continue.
Tyler Durden Tue, 09/29/2026 - 11:30
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[ H/T ZeroHedge ]
The Russian defense ministry on Tuesday indicated that it attacked and struck two military cargo vessels in the Black Sea as well as two data centers in the Ukrainian capital overnight.
The vessels, which were sailing foreign flags, were struck off Odessa, President Zelensky also confirmed in a Tuesday statement.
DSNS Ukraine
The Kyiv region along with ten other areas came under attack overnight, Zelensky acknowledged. But it is the capital which has been getting pounded, also following many weeks and months of Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian territory.
On Monday at least two people were killed when a drone hit National Academy of Sciences in the central part of the capital. The academy in a statement blasted the attack as "Russian terror" and "barbarity" aimed at "peaceful people who were simply at their workplaces."
A couple of new 'themes' have emerged in what have long been a nightly reality of devastating air raids. First, high flying jet-powered drones have been increasingly deployed by Russia.
The new Geran-5 is said to have anti-jamming capabilities and can travel up to an estimated 370mph, reports say. All of this makes them extremely hard to intercept.
Another theme is the war on data centers and mobile infrastructure. One regional source cited the Russian Defense Ministry as calling the campaign a 'mandatory digital detox' with grim sarcasm.
The same source documents the following recent attacks on data centers in Ukraine:
At the start of this week Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile service provider, according to a statement by the company.
Reports of at least seven total killed and over 50 injured in the capital on Monday amid the major attack:
Additionally the Russian military had on Sunday announced hitting a data center belonging to Vodafone Ukraine, which is Ukraine's second-largest cell network provider - all of which strongly points to the campaign on comms infrastructure set to continue.
Tyler Durden Tue, 09/29/2026 - 11:30
Continue reading...
[ H/T ZeroHedge ]
