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❗️RF is targeting the internet in Ukraine: analysts at Times of Ukraine looked into whether Ukrainians will be left without connectivity, whether tariffs will really almost double, and what Poland has to do with it?
⭕️100 thousand subscribers without internet from a single attack.
Russia has begun deliberately striking data centers. Immediately affected were 6 providers and hosters, some of them completely destroyed — with no predicted timelines for recovery. More than 40 have already been warned about the threat of an attack.
⭕️Will the occupiers be able to leave Ukraine without connectivity?
The Russians are already planning strikes on data centers in the western regions, and are even ready to strike border areas to destroy critical networks. However, the infrastructure is too distributed, and a complete shutdown of even the capital is unrealistic: the effect remains limited to specific neighborhoods.
Massive damage to connectivity would require months and hundreds of strikes on data centers.
⭕️Internet tariffs will almost double.
However, a price jump due to the strikes is unavoidable. Be prepared for a month of network access to cost 470–600 UAH. Prices will not spike immediately, but the increase will be spread over the next six months.
⭕️Mobile operators will also raise prices.
Because of problems with home internet, load on mobile networks will increase, which could add about 100 UAH to tariffs. If the occupiers start striking communication towers, prices will jump by 200–250 UAH.
⭕️The occupiers are knocking out connectivity in Poland too.
A Starlink station that provides connectivity for all of Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, was burned at the border. At the same time, the CIA warned Warsaw of an even more serious threat.
Russia could sever submarine cables in the Baltic Sea, through which transactions worth trillions of dollars and terabytes of information pass every day.
⭕️The occupiers' tactics have shifted from “turn off the lights” to “turn off the connectivity.” Russia is not capable of completely cutting Ukraine off from networks, but strikes on data centers will hit wallets hard. Already next month Ukrainians may be unpleasantly surprised by their internet and mobile bills.
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