Russia widens strikes to hit Ukraine's data centres, Zelensky says
Zelensky says Russia has widened attacks to hit Ukraine's data centres
Zelensky says Russia has expanded its attacks to target Ukraine's data centres and internet providers, aiming to cause maximum disruption to daily life. A drone strike on a Kyiv business centre killed four people and damaged a data centre; about 100,000 households lost internet. Russia confirmed hitting a data centre it claims was used by Ukrainian military intelligence. Ukraine's foreign minister calls these critical civilian infrastructure, not military targets.
The Russians are constantly expanding their escalation operation: American and other businesses, data centres, internet providers - for Russia, all ordinary life is simply a target.
- running101
Z should hit Russian data centers.
- CamperBob2
Even Russia would be better off today if we'd given Ukraine the tools to beat them back a couple of years ago.
- logicchains
With this and the data center destruction in the Gulf, maybe in future countries will need to move to constructing datacenters deep underground to protect them. Probably more expensive, but I imagine still cheaper than building data centers in space.
- ryanmarsh
Putin never asked me for anything.
- shevy-java
At this point in time I think a few key observations should be clear:
- Putin wages an invasion, with the primary goal to occupy territory. This is what they officially say too, bla bla bla Ukraine should give up Donbass etc... bla bla bla.
- At the same time, Putin also wages a genocide. This is in many ways similar to other wars, e. g. Israel expanding and occupying Palestine, just on a large scale Putin commits to his genocidal war ambition here (see the rumours of another wave of upcoming mass mobilization in Russia).
- Unfortunately, and this is an even bigger problem for more people in the future: Putin has no interest and desire, but also no longer any real possibility to end his war. He married the thought of the war to not only his own personal survival but that of imperialistic Russia. I don't really see how negotiations could work now (Trump acting as agent Krasnov won't do anything useful anyway, other than be a spokesperson for Putin - note that Yuri predicted this in the 1980s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5It1zarINv0) and this means Putin can only escalate further. While many think Putin is insane, I think the path of escalation "makes sense" IF you are willing to use nukes. While the USA meta-jabait trolls ("he won't use nukes"), I am pretty certain that he would. Which then brings us to the biggest question here:
- Why is the EU not already mass-producing nukes for all member states?
It can not continue that terrorists such as Putin continue to threaten eu […]
- dyauspitr
So what exactly is going on here if they can hit these data centers and refineries and stuff why don’t they do it all at once? I’m talking about both sides. Wouldn’t it make sense to hit every target at the same time and cause as much non-collateral damage as possible at once. Why is it spaced out? Like if Kiev can hit targets in Moscow why not hit every single target in Moscow at once.
- FLeXMurphy
Bigger news: Russian attack drones are in Kiev and are causing damage, it would appear. Have they gained ground and are they moving forward towards the city?