Overview
- Yandex said a data centre in Vladimir Oblast was damaged by an attack it attributed to the Ukrainian military and has been fully shut down, forcing the company to stop operations at that site.
- Reports show multiple recent attacks on Russian IT firms have caused outages for some services and raised questions about the resilience of private-sector infrastructure.
- The European Union announced a major expansion of its Russia sanctions list, adding roughly 1,600 individuals and organisations as part of stepped-up punitive measures.
- UK prime minister Barnam publicly stated that Russia intervened in the 2016 Brexit referendum, a comment that has reignited political debate and raised diplomatic scrutiny.
- China reopened the upgraded Huanggang/Shenzhen–Hong Kong checkpoint to speed crossings and boost daily capacity, and French authorities detained a 14-year-old suspect after a school shooting that left staff injured.