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Russian Airstrikes Strike Kyiv Data Centres, Killing Six
Spot report following alert: Russian airstrikes targeting Ukrainian data-centre infrastructure, 28 September 2026. Original alert
Situation
Six people died when Russian airstrikes hit multiple commercial data-centre facilities in Kyiv on 27–28 September 2026. Targets included a business centre operated by Datagroup, the Cosmonova centre, and sites linked to MiroHost, UTELS, CityHost, Crazy Network, and Etherlink. MiroHost's centre was destroyed; equipment damage and power loss at other sites cut internet access for roughly 100,000 households, though most of MiroHost's foreign customers were unaffected.
Ukraine reported no confirmed damage to military or state command-and-control systems. Critical government data had already moved to cloud or overseas infrastructure, which limited the strategic effect on state functions. Russia's defence ministry framed the strikes as hitting intelligence-processing facilities that support the Ukrainian armed forces; Ukrainian officials said civilian alert services went down but military communications held.
Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War read the intensified targeting of data centres as a shift toward economic warfare, extending a broader wave that also struck energy plants, residential buildings, and logistics nodes across at least eight regions. That marks a departure from the earlier focus on energy infrastructure alone. Whether Russia will now go after the offshore and cloud infrastructure to which Ukrainian state data has been relocated is not yet known.
Sources
- decis-alert-feed/tripwire, 2026-09-28
- Bloomberg; Wikipedia; Pravda (Ukraine), 2026-09-28
- Bloomberg; Wikipedia; Pravda (Ukraine), 2026-09-28
- Wikipedia; CSIS, 2026-09-28
- Wikipedia, 2026-09-28
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