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Evening Wrap: Russia hits Kyivstar headquarters; defense ministry claims Vodafone Ukraine data-center strike
Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile service provider, on Sunday, with the company telling Interfax Ukraine there were no casualties among staff, Reuters reported. Russia’s defense ministry said it also struck a data center belonging to Vodafone Ukraine, the country’s second-largest cell network; Vodafone Ukraine did not immediately comment. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia struck a data center in Kyiv twice on Sunday morning, wounding two children and an adult. Ukraine’s digital ministry has said Moscow’s data-center hits over the past week caused service outages for about 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding region.
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- ReutersRussia hits Ukraine's largest mobile provider, strikes data centres