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Introduction
This page provides information on ping response times measured every 30 minutes from the SLAC National Lab (40 miles South of San Francisco in California, US) to sites in the Ukraine around the time of the Russo Ukraine war in February 2022.
At the start of the war the PingER project was only monitoring 2 sites in Ukraine: mail.kipt.kharkov.ua and ns.kiev.ua. Since then we have added 4 more sites.
In addition one of the monitored sites (mail.kipt.kharkov.us) was a PingER Beacon site that was monitiored from 11 PingER sites around the world, in particular the closest monitoring site from the Ukraine was DESY in Hamburg Germany
You can click on the graphs to increase their size.
Google map of Ukraine highlighting Western Ukrainian National University
L'vivs'ka St, 11, Ternopil, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, 46009
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Snapshot Feb 26, noon California time
There is not much to see, the only marked change is from the Western Ukrainian National University, which is farthest from the invading forces. This site sees a step increase in Round Trip Times (RTT) around 9:00am GMT Feb 25, 2022. I also note that all the web servers PingER is monitoring are still serving web pages.
State of war noon 2/25/2022 California time from Wikipedia
Plots of PingER round trip times
mail.kipt.kharkov.ua (Kharkov Institure of Physics and Technology, Kharkiv, latitude & longitude 50.0867 36.2522)
Monitored from SLAC
Monitored from DESY
ix.net.ua(Ukranian Internet Exchange, Kyiv, latitude & longitude 50.4359 30.4981)
ns.kiev.ua (Kyiv Navigator, Kyiv, latitude & longitude 50.4359 30.4981)
www.archangel.kiev.ua (Saint Michael's Monastery, Kyiv, latitude longitude = 50.4558 30.5208)
www.golos.com.ua (Voice of Ukraine, Kyiv, latitude longitude = 50.4558 30.5055)
www.wuna.edu.ua (Western Ukrainian National University, Ternopil, latitude longitude = 49.7954 27.8248)
Other references:
Ukraine struggles with Internet blackout after Russian invasion, Feb 25
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Already Taking Down the Internet, Feb 24
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/24/russia-ukraine/
Ukranian Internet Exchange traffic
Map of the current state of the Russian attack, from the Washington Post
Russo Ukrainian War, Wikipedia