Topic: IT industry
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Ukraine reports Starlink connectivity loss for military drones; Zelensky calls it a "planned special operation"
On 14 October, Ukrainian military drones equipped with Starlink terminals lost connectivity, with the slowdown lasting roughly a day and effects lingering into 17 October. The incident occurred while US President Donald Trump was threatening to halt intelligence sharing over Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking in Brussels on 17 October, said connectivity had not fully recovered and described the episode as a "planned special operation." Both Trump and SpaceX owner Elon Musk denied involvement in any throttling.
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Massive Ukrainian drone attack hits Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, striking oil terminal, VK data center, and bridge
On the night of October 18, a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack struck Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Leningrad Oblast. Drones hit the Petersburg Oil Terminal, a VKontakte data center and adjacent substation in Leningrad Oblast, an Ozon logistics center, a Rosneft-affiliated fuel depot, and a cable-stayed bridge on the Western High-Speed Diameter, causing fires, power outages, service disruptions, and casualties. Ukrainian defense company Fire Point claimed responsibility, saying FP-1 drones were used.
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NATO-Ukraine centre presents two AI models for drone forecasting and artillery planning
The NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre (JATEC) presented two AI tools — "Model No. 13" for forecasting enemy drone use and "Model No. 32" for automated artillery operation planning — during a three-day seminar in Vilnius. Both were jointly developed by NATO's Allied Command Transformation and the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with "Model No. 13" reported as ready for integration into Ukrainian situational awareness systems and a prototype of "Model No. 32" transferred to Ukrainian customers for testing.
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Ukrainian strikes disabled three Yandex data centers in Russia, sharply cutting bot traffic
Between October 8 and 11, 2026, Ukrainian strikes hit three large Yandex data centers in Russia — at Sasovo in Ryazan Oblast, near Kaluga, and at Vladimir — disabling supercomputers and forcing Yandex Cloud into emergency mode. The strikes disrupted a wide range of Russian consumer, logistics and financial services, and monitoring data showed automated bot traffic from the Yandex network collapsing from near its two-week maximum to a fraction of a percent before partially recovering.
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Ukrainian drones hit three Yandex data centres; Zelensky says social media became 'easier to breathe on'
Between 8 and 11 October 2026, Ukrainian drones struck three of Yandex's five largest data centres in Russia — in Sasovo (Ryazan Oblast), Kaluga and Vladimir (Vladimir Oblast). Cloudflare Radar data cited by Tom's Hardware shows bot traffic from Yandex's network collapsing from roughly 80–88% of its two-week peak a week earlier to about 57% after the first strike and to 0.3–0.4% after the third, while NetBlocks reported Yandex Cloud traffic fell to 30% of normal levels. Speaking by video link at the Warsaw Security Forum, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the strikes made social media 'easier to breathe on' and proved that 'Europe is not the source of the problem.' American historian Timothy Snyder and MEP Tomasz Zdechovský suggested the drop showed Russian hosting of bots supporting Trump and Germany's AfD, a reading fact-check analyses contest.
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Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data center in Vladimir, third strike in four days
Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex data center in the Russian city of Vladimir overnight on October 11, forcing Yandex to halt operations at the facility and knocking out a wide range of its consumer and cloud services. The attack is the third on a Yandex data center within four days, following strikes on facilities in Sasovo, Ryazan region on October 8 and in the Kaluga region on October 9. Outages hit the Alice voice assistant, Yandex Music, Telemost, Yandex Dom, taxi and other consumer apps, and more than 80 Yandex Cloud services, with disruptions reported in Russian cities and in Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Serbia.
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Ukrainian drone strike hits Yandex data center at Russian machine-tool plant, triggering large-scale outages
On the night of October 8, a Ukrainian drone strike caused a fire at the Sasta machine-building plant in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, where a major Yandex data center is co-located. The data center was fully suspended, knocking out 38 of more than 70 Yandex Cloud services and disrupting Russian banks, marketplaces, telecoms and media. President Zelensky confirmed the strike and called it a "mirror response" to Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers.
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Kyiv's Omega Telecom data center ceases work after Russian strike
The Kyiv-based Omega Telecom data center stopped operating following a Russian strike, the company said in a post on its Facebook page around midnight on October 6. Specialists are working to restore communication channels and internet access at backup sites, though no completion timeline was given. The shutdown is part of a broader Russian campaign that has damaged multiple Ukrainian data and communications facilities in late September and early October.
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Russian strike hits telecommunications building in central Dnipro
On the morning of 4 October, Russian forces struck the centre of Dnipro, hitting a telecommunications company's premises and starting a fire. Emergency services responded at the scene while information about possible casualties was still being clarified. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, reported the attack.
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Finnish President Stubb asks Musk to expand Starlink coverage so Ukraine can strike Russian missile launchers
Finnish President Alexander Stubb said in a Reuters interview in New York that he has asked Elon Musk to allow Starlink satellite internet to operate in areas where Russian ballistic missile launchers are based — including on occupied Ukrainian territory and inside Russia — arguing it would save lives. He framed Starlink as a partial substitute for the air-defence assets Ukraine lacks ahead of winter, and said allies are preparing a winter aid package because he does not see the war ending before then.
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DFC approves financing for Vodafone Ukraine and DTEK energy storage
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) approved financing for Vodafone Ukraine to strengthen and modernize wartime telecommunications infrastructure, with the operator set to gain access to 5G networks built on what DFC describes as "trusted technology." The same DFC package includes a loan to DTEK for the construction of energy storage systems with a capacity of 200 MW / 400 MWh.
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Anthropic: Russia-linked hackers used Claude Code to automate cyberattacks on Ukraine and Europe
Anthropic published a report documenting how a cyber actor tracked as GTG-20006 — linked by researchers to the Russian group Midnight Blizzard — used the company's Claude Code AI tool to automate large portions of cyberattacks against Ukrainian and European government, defense and diplomatic targets. The investigation identified more than 20 organizations hit between December 2025 and August 2026, with military drone developers and their supply chains among the key themes.
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Ukraine's Diia portal opens four new claim categories in international Register of Damage
Ukraine's Diia portal launched four new categories of applications to the international Register of Damage for Ukraine (RD4U). The categories cover loss of access to medical care, loss of access to education, other violations of international law, and other economic losses. Applications are submitted through the Diia portal and forwarded automatically to the Register.
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Ukraine adopts tiered air-raid alerts, shorter Kyiv curfew to adapt to new Russian attack tactics
On 3 September, Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers adopted a package of decisions to adapt civilian life, business operations and government services to Russia's evolving air-attack tactics. Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky announced recommendations including a shorter curfew in Kyiv, a two-level air-raid alert system with distinct signals, continued metro operation during drone alerts, and a new state application built on the 'Diia' platform to centralize threat notifications.