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Watch the Net measures reachability of every routed IPv4 address, 24/7. When a country, city or network drops off, you'll see it, often minutes before the news does.
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Russian-occupied Donetsk has lost most of its internet. Since 03:21 local time (00:21 UTC) the city's main ISP, Donbass Electronic Communications (AS20590), is down to ~15% of normal; the city as a whole to ~31%. Still down 30 min later.
watchthenet.com/e/city/UA-14…
Down again: from 22:20 local time (19:20 UTC) occupied Donetsk lost most of its reachable network a second time today. Donbass Electronic Communications (AS20590) is at ~30% of normal, 3 hours in; it had only partly recovered from last night.
COTAS (AS25620), the telecom cooperative in Cochabamba, Bolivia, lost most of its network at 22:56 local time (02:56 UTC). ~83% of its usual addresses stopped answering, still down 30 min later.
watchthenet.com/e/asn/BO/AS2…
VK (AS47541), Russia's largest social network, lost ~45% of its reachable network from ~03:45 Moscow time tonight. VK says drones attacked its data centre in Leningrad Oblast and that services work as normal. ~27% is still missing 2.5h later.
watchthenet.com/e/asn/RU/AS4…
Source: VK's press office via Fontanka: fontanka.ru/2026/10/18/76708…
Guam has lost about half its internet as Super Typhoon Champi passes. Since ~01:30 local (15:30 UTC) answering addresses slid to ~45% of normal; Docomo Pacific (AS3605), the island's largest ISP, is at ~31%.
watchthenet.com/e/country/GU…
Sri Lanka's internet dropped to ~78% of normal at 11:40 local time (06:10 UTC), as an island-wide power blackout hit the grid. Sri Lanka Telecom (AS9329) fell to ~70%. Seven hours later the country is at ~87%.
watchthenet.com/e/country/LK…
Source: economynext.com/sri-lanka-or…
Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine lost about half its internet at 05:42 Kyiv time this morning (02:42 UTC), after one of the largest Russian attacks on the region of the war. Local ISP Everest (AS49223) fell to about a third. Back to ~93% by 15:45 Kyiv time.
watchthenet.com/e/region/UA-…
Source: kyivindependent.com/russian-…
Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine has lost about a third of its internet since 22:35 Kyiv time Friday (19:35 UTC). Addresses answering fell to 58% of normal and are still at ~70%. Ukraine as a whole barely moved.
watchthenet.com/e/region/UA-…
Fidium (Consolidated Communications, AS12042) went fully dark for about 12 minutes today, 13:29 to 13:41 ET (17:29-17:41 UTC).
~147K addresses stopped answering at once, then came back just as fast.
watchthenet.com/event/19877
A week on, Yandex Cloud (AS200350) is still at about a third of its normal reachable addresses, flat since Oct 11. Two of its zones (Sasovo, Vladimir) are still down; Yandex's status page says "limited mode" and gives no recovery date.
watchthenet.com/e/asn/RU/AS2…
Source: Yandex Cloud status page, Oct 15 update: platform in "limited mode", compute in the damaged zones unavailable, "we cannot name service recovery timelines". Services free for customers through Oct 31.
status.yandex.cloud/en/incid…
Recovery could take months: market sources cite lead times of up to six months for replacement equipment (Kommersant via Radio Svoboda).
svoboda.org/a/vosstanovlenie…
