Russia has increased targeted strikes on Ukrainian data centers, disrupting internet access for ~100K Kyiv residents on Wednesday and Thursday (Christopher Miller/Financial Times)

Targeted strikes on Ukrainian data centers caused internet outages for roughly 100,000 Kyiv residents, underscoring how physical attacks on digital infrastructure can quickly cascade into business disruption, especially for banking and other essential online services. For CIOs and technology leaders, the key implication is that resilience now depends on multi-region architectures, provider diversification, tested failover, and continuity plans that assume critical infrastructure can be degraded by conflict or other large-scale shocks.