Strikes by Russian forces on data centres are causing significant problems in Ukrainians’ day-to-day lives and in the operation of businesses.
Deputy Ministers of Digital Transformation Vitalii Balashov and Stanislav Prybytko spoke about this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
Attacks on such facilities not only cause internet outages in Kyiv and the surrounding region, but also disrupt the work of providers, companies’ online services, websites and municipal systems in different parts of the country.
In particular, there are interruptions to TV channel broadcasting, glitches in video players, temporary problems with banking services and the unavailability of payment terminals.
Businesses suffer most from attacks when they keep their services in a single data centre without backup redundancy. At the same time, the Digital Ministry notes that in most cases customer data remains intact, and affected companies restore operations from geographically remote sites. To protect systems from enemy strikes, the state and businesses are actively moving data underground, into the cloud and onto servers abroad.
- In Kyiv, a Russian strike destroyed the dline.ua data centre. At the same time, the company moved all services and customer data to backup sites, the company said.
- Earlier, as a result of repeated Russian strikes, the Cosmonova data centre ceased operations. The destruction was extensive.
- On 1 October, the “Parkovyi” data centre also reported that it had stopped operating. The damage from the strikes was critical. Restoring services at this site is impossible, the data centre said. It also added that customer data had been deployed on backup sites in the European Union.