Drone strikes on 23 September damaged data centres and telecommunications infrastructure in Kyiv, with at least four internet providers — Kyiv Link, Pautina, Utels and Crazy Network — reporting partial connectivity loss, according to the monitoring group NetBlocks. Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation said around 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding region lost reliable internet; Utels said one Kyiv data centre housing its core network equipment lost power and that most customers were restored within about two hours, while Pautina reported several sites hit and nearly half its network temporarily out of service. Crazy Network attributed outages in Kyiv, Vinnytsia and the Khmelnytskyi region to a strike on a central traffic-exchange facility. Russia's Defence Ministry claimed it struck the New-Telco and United DC facilities, alleging support to Ukrainian defence and intelligence agencies — a claim that could not be independently verified and which Ukrainian authorities have not confirmed. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called the targeting of major data centres an attempt to disrupt information flow, including air-raid warnings.

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