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Russia is striking Ukrainian data centers: 23 September at the Kiev International Exhibition Center “Parkovy” there were two hits, and another Kyiv data center was damaged.
A data center is a building where servers are physically housed. When you open a bank app or a government service, your data are stored and processed there, not somewhere “in the internet.” If a server is destroyed and there are no other copies, the information is lost forever.
Why don’t government services go down along with the buildings after such strikes? Because critical data have long been stored not only in Ukraine. From the first weeks of the full-scale war, more than 100 state registries and systems were moved to foreign clouds precisely for this contingency.
When copies are stored in different countries, one strike does not destroy everything. That does not mean everything operates without any glitches: recovery takes time, and the physical infrastructure in Ukraine remains vulnerable.
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