Ukrainian Drones Hit Russian Data Centers, Disrupting Russian Apps and Services

Data Centers Are War Targets Now

"Why have we gotten to the point where we have permitted militaries of various states to use civilian commercial data centers for their military purposes?"

Why Ukrainian strikes on data centers are a real problem for Russia — and beyond

Servers have become a target of war. As well as disrupting daily life, the strikes are raising questions of international law.

Ukrainian drones hit Russian data centers, disrupting Russian apps and services

Over the past week, Ukraine attacked some of Yandex's biggest data centers, disrupting the operations of various Russian national applications and metropolitan digital services. Russia, which has itself targeted Ukrainian data centers in recent weeks. Worse yet for Russia, its online disinformation activities appear disrupted by these attacks. Although not as catastrophic as some initial reports claimed, a new report from Cloudflare claims that …