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Russia strikes Kyivstar headquarters in Kyiv as service outages hit users
Russia attacked the headquarters of Ukraine’s largest mobile service provider, Kyivstar, in Kyiv on Sunday, the company said, adding that no one was killed. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said two children and an adult were injured in an attack on another data center in Kyiv.
Kyivstar said its headquarters in Kyiv was struck on Sunday and that no one was killed in the attack. The attack was attributed to Russia.
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that a data center belonging to Vodafone Ukraine, the country’s second-largest mobile network provider, was also struck. Vodafone Ukraine did not respond to a request for comment.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia targeted a data center in Kyiv twice on Sunday morning. Zelenskyy said two children and an adult were injured in the attack.
About 100,000 households affected by outages around Kyiv
Data centers operated by internet providers in Ukraine have been targeted in attacks over the past week. Around 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding area experienced service outages.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha argued that the attacks were intended to disrupt the flow of information by targeting major data centers. Sybiha also said that rapid alerts issued for missile and drone threats had saved lives.
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