ℹ️ Update: #Ukraine's national telecoms operator #Ukrtelecom has managed to restore many of yesterday's outages, however the provider has just reported new issues in Volyn, Rivnenska and, Transcarpathian, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions

⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a loss a connectivity to the network serving Vodafone in #Energodar, southeast #Ukraine, where users report disruption to mobile services as Russian forces move to occupy #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

📰 Background: https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disruptions-registered-as-russia-moves-in-on-ukraine-W80p4k8K

⚠️ Update: The International Atomic Energy Agency says it can no longer get "reliable information" about #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant following the disconnection of internet and telecommunications networks at the location, per reporter Erin Burnett (h/t @Osinttechnical)

ℹ️ Update: The International Atomic Energy Agency has issued a statement on #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, noting the contravention of number 7 of the indispensable pillars: “There must be reliable communications with the regulator and others.”

📰 https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-13-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine

📰 SpaceX is sending more #Starlink terminals to #Ukraine per President Zelensky. “Talked to Elon Musk. I'm grateful to him for supporting Ukraine with words and deeds.”

The device lets owners create internet hotspots that don’t rely on domestic links.

https://www.engadget.com/spacex-sends-more-starlink-terminals-223512511.html

ICYMI: #Iran's internet chokepoint caught fire, caused outages. Digital karma at its finest?

🖋 Laura Dobberstein reports for TheRegister on the risks of infrastructure centralization.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/07/iran_internet_outage/

The disconnection of fixed-line internet and some mobile service in and around the #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in #Ukraine is raising concerns over public safety, with radiation levels no longer published and the IAEA unable to monitor.

📰 Report: https://netblocks.org/reports/disconnection-raises-fears-over-safety-at-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-1yPjNKAQ

ℹ️ Note: Twitter is currently experiencing outages in multiple countries; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown

📰 Russian forces were hacked after abandoning their encrypted phone system in #Ukraine per investigative journalism organisation Bellingcat. The incident comes as Russia targets 3G internet towers, with concerns raised over nuclear safety at Zaporizhzhia

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russian-military-being-hacked-after-its-own-soldiers-destroy-3-g-internet-towers-104303881.html

ℹ️ Note: Twitter is again experiencing outages in multiple countries; the issue affects the internal Twitter API used by both the mobile and web versions of the platform; incident not related to country-level internet restrictions or filtering #TwitterDown

In times of crisis, connectivity matters. Here's to all the women working to keep the internet running, secure, and open in the face of new challenges this #InternationalWomensDay and every other day ✊ #IWD2022 

📰 Is #Russia preparing to fall off the global Internet? A set of documents published this week suggests authorities are working to mitigate the impact of a disconnect which could signal a new digital Iron Curtain.

🖋 David Gilbert writes for VICE News

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gevb/russia-is-preparing-to-cut-itself-off-from-the-global-internet

ℹ️Note: #Spotify users around the world have been logged out of the service and are unable to stream, as chat app #Discord reports API errors resulting in service outages. The incidents come shortly after Twitter experienced intermittent failures #SpotifyDown #DiscordDown

⚠️ Update: The International Atomic Energy Agency says remote data transmission from monitoring systems at #Ukraine's mothballed #Chernobyl nuclear plant has been lost. The incident follows a loss of data from #Zaporizhzhia.

📰 https://netblocks.org/reports/disconnection-raises-fears-over-safety-at-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-1yPjNKAQ

📰 https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-15-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine

⚠️ Update: The 750 kV #Chernobyl-Kyiv high-voltage power line is cut following damage caused by Russia, and the plant cannot cool spent nuclear fuel per #Ukraine's Energoatom.

Remote monitoring links have also been severed

⚠️ Confirmed: Real-time network data corroborate reports of a power blackout in the vicinity of #Chernobyl and #Slavutych, #Ukraine. The incident presents a threat to safety at the mothballed Soviet nuclear power plant per authorities #Славутич

📰 Report: https://netblocks.org/reports/severed-power-line-heightens-safety-at-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-eBOQke8Z

⚠️ Confirmed: Major internet disruption registered across #Kherson Oblast, southern #Ukraine, with high impact to state provider Ukrtelecom and Volia; incident comes amid reports some 400 citizens were detained by Russia's National Guard 📉

📰 Background: https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disruptions-registered-as-russia-moves-in-on-ukraine-W80p4k8K

ℹ️ Update: Casualties are reported from #Mariupol, southeast #Ukraine, after a Russian airstrike hit a hospital. Metrics show the besieged city has been largely cut off from the internet since early March, limiting the flow of information.

📰 Background: https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disruptions-registered-as-russia-moves-in-on-ukraine-W80p4k8K

⚠️ Update: The IAEA has confirmed that it is no longer receiving data from safeguard systems installed to monitor nuclear material at the Zaporizhzhya and Chernobyl nuclear power plants in #Ukraine.

📰 https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-16-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine

📰 https://netblocks.org/reports/disconnection-raises-fears-over-safety-at-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-1yPjNKAQ

⚠️ Update: Network provider Triolan in #Ukraine is heavily impacted by a major outage attributed by the company to a cyberattack; incident is the second such tracked, with the first observed on the morning of 24 February when invasion began

📰 Background: https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disruptions-registered-as-russia-moves-in-on-ukraine-W80p4k8K

⚠️Confirmed: The Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology in #Ukraine has fallen offline after an attack by Russia. The targeting of the lab which hosts an ADS neutron source is being called an "act of nuclear terrorism" by authorities.

📰 Background: https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disruptions-registered-as-russia-moves-in-on-ukraine-W80p4k8K