Russia hits Ukraine's largest mobile provider, strikes data centres


Smoke rises over the headquarters of Kyivstar, one of Ukraine's largest telecoms companies, hit by a Russian jet drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine September 27, 2026. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

KYIV, Sept 27 (Reuters) - ⁠Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's ⁠largest mobile service provider on Sunday, ‌the company told local media, as Moscow continued a bombardment of Ukrainian data centres and communications infrastructure.

Kyivstar told Interfax ​Ukraine news agency that its ⁠head office in ⁠Kyiv had been hit, but there were no casualties.

Russia's ⁠defence ‌ministry also said on Sunday it hit a data centre belonging to ⁠Vodafone Ukraine, the country's second-largest cell ​network provider.

Vodafone ‌Ukraine did not respond to a request for ⁠comment.

Ukrainian ​President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia struck a data centre in Kyiv twice on Sunday morning, wounding ⁠two children and an adult.

Moscow ​has also hit data centres belonging to Ukrainian internet providers over the past week, causing service ⁠outages to about 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding region, according to Ukraine's digital ministry.

"Russia has targeted major Ukrainian data centres, seeking ​to disrupt the flow of ⁠information. Rapid alerts about missile and drone threats ​are essential - they save ‌lives," Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii ​Sybiha wrote on X on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Max Hunder; Editing by Alexander Smith)

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