Attacks on data centers in the Middle East may accelerate the revision of global standards for digital infrastructure protection and open up an opportunity for Ukraine to offer the world its own experience of cloud service resilience during wartime, according to Anton Khvastunov, co-founder and CBDO of GigaCloud. He wrote about this in a blog for the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
According to the author, after the strikes on data centers in the region, the requirements for their protection may approach the standards for the protection of military facilities. This could include non-disclosure of location, new security protocols, additional certification, and mandatory data redundancy between multiple sites so that a direct strike on one facility does not completely shut down services.
Khvastunov notes that this situation creates a window of opportunity for Ukraine, as Ukrainian providers have already gained practical experience in operating and protecting data in wartime conditions. He emphasizes that dependence on a single, even very large, infrastructure provider makes data vulnerable, and therefore the market will move towards interoperability and distributed storage of critical information.
The blog also states that in the spring of 2025, the largest players in the Ukrainian cloud market created the Ukrainian Digital Sovereignty Alliance. According to the author, as part of this initiative, participants are working on a model in which the stability of critical digital infrastructure is ensured not by one provider, but by several major market players simultaneously.
The author believes that the topic of digital sovereignty will become increasingly important in Europe and other regions, and attacks on data centers may make data protection one of the key areas of the new technology policy. The full text of the blog is published on the Interfax-Ukraine website.
Source: Anton Khvastunov’s blog “The war for data centers has begun. What does this mean for the world and Ukraine” on the Interfax-Ukraine website.
China’s foreign exchange reserves, the largest in the world, increased by $28.7 billion (+0.85%) in February compared to the previous month and amounted to $3.428 trillion, according to a statement by the People’s Bank of China.
The reserves reached their highest level since November 2015.
The US dollar rose 0.51% against a basket of major world currencies last month. The yuan rose 1.35% against the US currency.
Gold reserves in China rose for the sixteenth consecutive month in February, to 74.22 million ounces from 74.19 million ounces in January. In value terms, gold reserves rose to $387.59 billion from $369.58 billion at the end of January.
Dynamics of services exports in January-September 2025 by the most important items compared to the same period in 2024, %
European farmers’ organizations have appealed to the European Commission to seek the cancellation of Ukraine’s 10% export duty on soybeans and rapeseed, according to industry media reports.
The appeal was sent by the Spanish agricultural association ASAJA and the European association of farmers’ organizations Copa-Cogeca. In their opinion, the introduction of export duties on Ukrainian oilseeds could lead to a redistribution of raw material flows and negatively affect the EU market.
Farmers’ associations believe that the current restrictions may stimulate the processing of raw materials within Ukraine and reduce the volume of oilseed supplies to the European market. In this regard, they call on the European Commission to hold consultations with the Ukrainian side and seek the cancellation of the relevant measures.
As reported, a 10% export duty on soybeans and rapeseed has been in effect in Ukraine since September 2025, which is to be gradually reduced over several years.
At the same time, representatives of the European agricultural sector believe that such measures could change the balance in the EU oilseed market and affect the region’s processing industry.
Mykhailo Nestor is stepping down as Director of Digital Products at Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, after seven years with the company.
“I am happy that I was able to build a product company from scratch with a wonderful team according to the highest standards within a huge (in my opinion, the best in Ukraine) corporation,” Nestor wrote on Facebook.
According to him, he is also leaving his position as Chief Product Officer at the IT company Kyivstar.Tech.
“I did much more than I planned, but, of course, less than I would have liked — there are always more ideas,” Nestor emphasized.
In a comment to DOU, he said that he plans to move into the deftech sphere, but it is not yet known which company he will join.
Nestor’s personal Facebook page notes that from April 2018 to May 2019, he held the position of Product Management at the DreamTeam esports platform, and then in March 2022, he became a co-founder of the KOLO charitable foundation.
According to Serbian Economist, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has announced that the country will soon open its first large military drone factory in cooperation with a foreign partner. According to him, serial production in the republic should begin by the end of April. The announcement was made during the presentation of the national development strategy “Serbia 2030.”
Vucic noted that in the current international environment, “might makes right,” and stressed that Serbia must not remain weak. He linked the development of defense production to the task of maintaining peace and stability, stating that strengthening the army and police is necessary precisely as a deterrent. According to the president, Serbia allocates more than 2.5% of its GDP to the army and police.
The president specified that smaller drones had previously been assembled and developed in Serbia, both in the army and in the private sector. In particular, he mentioned the Komarac 1 and Komarac 2 models. The existence of such systems is confirmed by materials from the Serbian Ministry of Defense, which mention the use of Komarac 1 and Komarac 2 drones, with the latter designed, among other things, to destroy more heavily defended targets.
At the same time, Vucic described the new project as significantly larger and more technologically advanced, calling it a product of “the highest global standard.” Neither the name of the foreign partner, nor the investment parameters, nor the estimated production volumes have been officially disclosed at this time.
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