Ukraine strikes one of Russia's two largest Federal Tax Service data centres

Ukraine's armed forces hit a data processing centre of the Russian Federal Tax Service (FNS) overnight into Friday, 23 October. The facility is in the town of Gorodets in the Nizhny Novgorod region of central Russia. It is another strike on a site inside Russian territory during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.

The attack was reported by the Ukrainian Telegram channel Exilenova+ and the independent Russian news outlet ASTRA. According to the reports, it is one of the two largest data centres of the tax service in the country.

The source does not say what weapons were used, what damage was caused or whether anyone was hurt. It also gives no comments from Russian or Ukrainian officials. For now, the information comes from the channels named above and has not been confirmed by official sources.