Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps

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Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers (a building full of computers that runs online services) by exploiting air defense gaps, according to Ars Technica. Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine’s wartime economy. A surge in Russian jet-powered drone strikes on Ukrainian data centers has increasingly disrupted mobile phone and Internet services for thousands of people.

Now Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other government officials are warning of the need for more air defense capabilities, as such telecommunication outages could threaten Ukraine’s digital economy and undermine the country’s ongoing resistance to Russia’s invasion. The Russian attacks on Ukrainian telecommunication infrastructure have focused on Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv since September 23, according to the nonprofit Reporters Without Borders .