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⚠️ 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
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⚠️ 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: ht…
⚠️ 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)
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📰 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
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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/
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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
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ℹ️ Note: Twitter is currently experiencing outages in multiple countries; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown
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📰 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
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ℹ️ Note: Twitter is currently experiencing outages in multiple countries; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown
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
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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 
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📰 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
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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
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⚠️ 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/repor…
⚠️ 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
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⚠️ 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
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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
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⚠️ 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
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⚠️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
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⚠️ Confirmed: Major internet disruption registered in #Chernihiv, northern #Ukraine, amid reports of new air strikes; real-time network data show a collapse in connectivity that is likely to limit coverage of events on the ground 📉

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