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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 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 5 more sites.
In addition one of the monitored sites (mail.kipt.kharkov.us) was a PingER Beacon site that was monitored from 11 PingER sites around the world, in particular, the closest monitoring site from Ukraine was DESY in Hamburg Germany
You can click on the graphs to increase their size.
Snapshot Mar 3, noon California time
There are some notable changes in some of the Round Trip Times (RTT) for the:
- Odessa I. I. Michnikov National University a step up starting Feb 27, starting around 14:00 GMT, and then a larger step down on Feb 28 around 20:00 GMT.
Then again on Mar 2, 2022 there is a marked increase in RTT between 16:00 and 20:30. - the Western Ukrainian National University, which is farthest from the invading forces, saw a step up starting around 9:00am GMT Feb 25, 2020, then steps down on Feb 28 around noon and 20:00 GMT. Then on Mar 2 16:30-20:00 there is a burst of increased RTTs.
- There are a couple of bursts of increased RTTs seen from SLAC to Kyiv Academic University on Feb 28, 2022 11:00-12:00 and again on Mar 2, 17:00 - 18:30GMT.
- There is an increase in RTTs seen from DESY, Hamburg Germany to the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology starting 18:00 March 2, 2022 GMT.
- The Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology was no longer pingable from SLAC by name mail.kipt.kharkov.ua or address 193.239.180.1 after 13:15 Mar 3, 2022 GMT (5:15 am Mar 3, 2022). Also the web page https://mail.kipt.kharkov.ua/ no longer responds.
I also note that all the web servers (except ns.kiev.us) that PingER is monitoring and are responding are still serving web pages.
State of war, California time from Wikipedia (click on a map to increase its size)
25 Feb 2022 | 27 Feb 2022 | 28 Feb 2022 | 1 Mar 2022 | 3 Mar 2022 |
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Plots of PingER round trip times
City | Site | Latitude | Longitude | URL |
Luhansk | Taras Shevchenko National University | 49.28157 | 38.90258 | www.luguniv.edu.ua |
Donetsk | Donetsk National Medical University | 48.0027 | 37.8278 | www.dnmu.com.ua |
Zaporizhzhia, | Zaporizhia National University | 47.819 | 35.1811 | www.znu.edu.ua |
Kharkiv | Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology | 50.0867 | 36.2522 | mail.kipt.kharkov.ua |
Kharkiv | Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics | 50.0139 | 36.22216 | www.hneu.edu.ua |
Sumy | Sumy National Agrarian University | 50.8817 | 34.7756 | snau.edu.ua |
Chernihov | Chernihiv National University of Technology | 51.5051 | 31.33316 | ww.chnpu.edu.ua |
Odessa | I. I. Michnikov National University | 46.4875 | 30.729 | www.onu.edu.ua |
Kherson | Kherson National Technical University | 46.66879 | 32.6354 | www.kntu.net.ua |
Kherson | Kherson State Agricultural University | 46.6425 | 32.5821 | www.ksau.kherson.ua |
Mykokaiv | National University of Shipbuilding | 46.9871 | 31.9836 | www.nuos-international.com.ua |
Kyiv | Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine | 50.4443 | 30.5142 | www.imath.kiev.ua |
Kyiv | Ukranian Internet Exchange | 50.4359 | 30.4981 | ix.net.ua |
Kyiv | Kyiv Navigator | 50.4359 | 30.498 | ns.kiev.ua |
Kyiv | Saint Michael's Monastery, Kyiv, | 50.4558 | 30.5208 | www.archangel.kiev.ua |
Kyiv | Voice of Ukraine | 50.4558 | 30.5055 | www.golos.com.ua |
Kyiv | Kyiv Academic University | 50.4667 | 30.3608 | www.kau.org.ua |
Kyiv | Hostmaster | 50.4557 | 30.49 | www.hostmaster.ua |
Vinnytsia | Vinnytsia National Technical University | 49.23388 | 28.41116 | www.vntu.edu.ua |
Ternopil | Western Ukrainian National University | 49.5537 | 25.55945 | www.wunu.edu.ua |
Lviv | Lviv State University of Physical Culture | 49.84115 | 24.0205 | www.ldufk.edu.ua |
Map of monitored sites
Using https://batchgeo.com/ and above table to derive https://batchgeo.com/map/46651e1408ad733584c4fb12fd91d066 (click on link or see below)
Time series for monitored sites
The times in the plots below are GMT
mail.kipt.kharkov.ua (Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkiv, latitude & longitude 50.0867 36.2522)
Monitored from SLAC
In more detail:
Monitored from DESY
www.hneu.edu.ua (Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economic, Kharkiv, latitude & longitude 50.0139 36.22216)
www.onu.edu.ua (Odessa I. I. Michnikov National University, latitude & longitude 46.4875 30.7290)
www.znu.edu.ua (Zaporizhia National University, Zaporizhia, latitude & longitude 47.189 35.1811)
This site is of interest due to its proximity to the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant about 40 miles SW of the Zaporizhia National University.
www.kntu.net.ua (Kherson National Technical University, Kherson, latitude & longitude 46.66879 32.6354)
www.ksau.kherson.ua (Kherson State Agricultural University, Kherson, latitude & longitude 46.6425 32.5821)
www.nuos-international.com.ua (National University of Shipbuilding, Mykolaiv, latitude & longitude 46.9871, 31.9836)
www.imath.kiev.us (Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, latitude longitude = 50.443 30.5142)
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.hostmaster.ua (Hostmaster, Kyiv latitude and longitude 50.4557 30.4900)
According to https://hostmaster.ua/news/?pr20220226 'As of 2/.26/2022 the .UA domain registry company "Hostmeister" has transferred to European countries servers that ensure the operability of the .UA domain. Previously, the servers were located in Kiev.
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.kau.org.ua (Kyiv Academic University, Kyiv, latitude longitude = 50.4667 30.3608)
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
Ukraine Nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Enerhodar
Other relevant items
According to https://hostmaster.ua/news/?pr20220226 "As of 2/.26/2022 the .UA domain registry company "Hostmeister" has transferred to European countries servers that ensure the operability of the .UA domain. Previously, the servers were located in Kiev."
Mariupol State University's web site (http://en.mdu.in.ua/) has an RTT from SLAC of around 72ms suggesting it is in the US
The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (www.lnu.edu.ua) has an RTT from SLAC of around 161ms and appears to be served by edivirt1803.your-server.de where .de is the TLD for Germany.
A Wednesday morning (Feb 2, 2022) strike on the Kharkiv National University left the building engulfed by fire according to Ukraine's State Emergency Services and videos geolocated by CNN.
3/3/2022: The largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Enerhodarnuclear, is under attack by Russian forces who are being blocked by Ukraine citizens. CNN reports that the plant has been shelled and is on fire.