The US firm Cogent Communications said Friday that it was
also cutting Internet service to Russian clients. Lumen said in a brief
statement it provides "extremely small and very limited" business
services in Russia.
"We decided to disconnect the network due to increased
security risk inside Russia," the company said in a statement.
"We have not yet experienced network disruptions but
given the increasingly uncertain environment and the heightened risk of state
action, we took this move to ensure the security of our and our customers'
networks, as well as the ongoing integrity of the global Internet."
Lumen and Cogent are both part of the network that allows
data to flow through the guts of the Internet.
They join a long list of companies that have stopped doing
business with Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine, which has left a
mounting civilian death toll while more than 2 million refugees have fled to
neighboring countries. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a "special
operation."
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