A Russian attack on Kyiv on September 23 damaged communications infrastructure and disrupted Internet access for about 100,000 households, with effects extending to Ukraine’s court systems and hosting services as operators worked to restore connectivity.

About 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding region experienced Internet problems, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation. The ministry said technicians were assessing damage and repairing networks, but gave no timetable for full restoration. The ministry’s statement was also reported by Interfax-Ukraine.

Providers UTELS and Pavutyna separately reported damage associated with data-center infrastructure. UTELS said a Kyiv data center housing its network equipment had been damaged and the equipment was without power, while emergency crews worked to restore operations. Pavutyna said one of the data centers it uses had been damaged and that some subscribers could be without connectivity.

The disruption also reached Ukraine’s judicial services. The state enterprise Information Judicial Systems said an outage affecting a backbone provider made court services unavailable from 13:58 until 16:17 Kyiv time. Technicians had partly restored the services when the operator posted its notice at 16:20, with stabilization and phased restoration continuing. The notice did not identify the backbone provider. (The judicial-systems notice)

Hosting operator ITLDC reported a separate outage at its UA2.IEV Kyiv location beginning at 11:10 Kyiv time (08:10 UTC). It initially said infrastructure components had been powered down following an attack in the area. By 13:00, preliminary information from data-center staff indicated its equipment appeared undamaged, suggesting at least some of the outage resulted from the facility being taken offline rather than direct equipment damage. At 21:50 Kyiv time, ITLDC still had no estimate for restoration at its affected Ukrainian locations. (ITLDC’s incident log)

The reports show the attack affecting several layers of Kyiv’s Internet infrastructure: residential access networks, provider equipment, hosting and public digital services. They do not, however, establish that UTELS, Pavutyna and ITLDC were operating from the same facility, or that the court outage depended on any of those providers.

Whether a shared infrastructure dependency amplified the disruption remains unclear. Public statements available Wednesday did not identify the affected data centers or the upstream provider involved in the court outage. Nor is there verified evidence that data-center or telecommunications facilities were deliberately targeted rather than damaged during the wider attack on Kyiv.