Dline.ua's Kyiv data center goes offline after a Russian strike

Another data center in Kyiv is dark. Hromadske Radio reported that Dline.ua's facility at 28 Predslavynska Street was destroyed in a Russian strike, an account Data Center Dynamics carried, and the company — which trades as Dream Line and sells colocation, hosting and IT services in Ukraine — said all services and customer data had been transferred to backup sites. Internet monitoring firm NetBlocks recorded Dream Line's network going down this week.

That same report lists facilities run by Parkovyi Data Center, MiroHost, Datagroup, Vodafone Ukraine, De Novo, Cosmonova, Omega Telecom and Ukrtelecom as having taken drone damage in recent weeks. It is not known whether those are eight separate locations or whether some of the companies were tenants in shared buildings, and for anyone trying to size the loss, the difference between eight tenants and eight buildings is the whole question.

Beyond the server halls, ISPs UTELS, Domonet, Kievnet and Faust have reported outages tied to the attacks, the strikes have affected television broadcasts, and Kyivstar's headquarters has been struck by drones. Russia's defense ministry confirmed earlier this week, in a Telegram post, that it has been targeting Ukraine's communications and logistics centers along with naval vessels. Ukraine's foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said on X last week that Russia has targeted major Ukrainian data centers to disrupt the flow of information, and that rapid missile and drone alerts save lives.

None of this is a surprise to anyone who has priced Ukrainian digital assets lately; the frequency is. This publication noted in September, after both militaries claimed strikes on data center sites inside a single year, that the siting math for Ukrainian infrastructure had acquired a sovereign-cloud risk premium with no diligence line built to price it. The roster of damaged names has grown since, and it now includes carriers alongside the colocation specialists and hosting shops that make up the country's commercial capacity.

In August, Kyivstar and Ukrtelecom agreed to sell internet over each other's fiber rather than keep building parallel networks, a deal struck to end duplicate construction that also concentrates what a single strike can reach. Both names now appear in the damage coverage, though the reported hits are to Ukrtelecom's facilities and to Kyivstar's headquarters, and the coverage does not address the shared fiber.

Dream Line says its customers kept their data, and the shift to backup sites is the strongest evidence the report offers that dispersal works; where those backup sites sit is a question the coverage leaves open. For the tenants of Predslavynska Street, that is now the detail that matters most.