Russia hits Ukrainian data centers in barrage that kills six | Today’s news
Russian airstrikes overnight and early Sunday killed at least six people across Ukraine and targeted a number of major data centers in Kiev, officials said.
Three people were killed in the Zaporizhia region and a man died in Kiev as a result of the strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X. Civilian infrastructure, including power facilities and residential buildings in at least eight regions, were targeted, he added.
Oleg Hryhorov, head of the Suma military administration in northeastern Ukraine, later reported the deaths of an elderly woman and a 16-year-old girl after Russian precision bomb attacks. Five other people were injured.
Zelenskyy said Russia hit a data center in Kyiv twice in overnight fire, wounding three people, but gave no further details.
Kyivstar, a Ukrainian company that provides mobile phone and Internet services, later said in an X post that a building in the Kyiv area where a housing company was based was damaged, with an impact assessment.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its drones hit a data center operated by Vodafone, “one of the largest companies providing mobile services and high-speed internet to the Ukrainian armed forces”. Later on Sunday, the ministry said two more centers had been hit – the Kyivstar facility and another operated by Omega Telecom, which manages a vast fiber optic network across the country.
Kremlin forces also hit three logistics centers in Kyiv and Odesa regions, as well as two dry cargo ships en route to the port of Odesa, according to a Defense Ministry statement overnight and Sunday evening.
Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper said in a Telegram that the “massive” overnight strike damaged a medical facility, a hotel, a shop and a grain storage warehouse, among others.
At the same time, Russian air defense systems shot down 96 Ukrainian drones between 8:00 p.m. Moscow time and 8:00 a.m. over regions bordering Ukraine, the annexed Crimean peninsula and the Black Sea, the Defense Ministry said. Ukraine’s air force says Russia launched 170 drones overnight from 6 p.m.
The warring countries continue to trade blows, with the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine well into its fifth year and no sign of any peace deal. The US has been pushing both sides to agree to cease mutual attacks on the other’s energy assets, but neither has accepted.
In addition, Ukrainian drone manufacturer Pegasus Arms halted operations due to significant damage following a Russian ballistic missile strike last week. “This is the second attack on the company’s production facilities,” Pegasus Arms said on Facebook. “Following the previous strike on September 2, production was moved to a new location and resumed. Production is currently suspended again indefinitely.”
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