Active Incident
Confirmed: network disruption in Ukraine
Ukraine · January 7, 2026 · 54 days
IODA detected significant connectivity drop. 1 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.
Evidence
54%
Anomaly Rate
34
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
54% of 34 network tests from Ukraine failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 51+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourcecensoredplanet + ioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJanuary 7, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (345)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis341 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Kherson"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.02
Mar 2, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Kherson"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.02
Mar 1, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Transcarpathia"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.03
Mar 1, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Kherson"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.01
Feb 27, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Luhans'k"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.04
Feb 27, 2026
View source →+ 336 more IODA records
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research4 records
interference
"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.10
Feb 12, 2026
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"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.13
Feb 12, 2026
View source →interference
"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.13
Feb 12, 2026
View source →interference
"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.14
Feb 12, 2026
View source →What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: network disruption in Ukraine [UA-2026-0001]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/UA-2026-0001
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