Microsoft (MSFT.O) said the outage is showing partial recovery across regions.

Uforce, a London-headquartered defence start-up founded in Ukraine, raised $700m in a financing round co-led by the UK National Wealth Fund (NWF) and Valor Equity Partners. NWF invested $150m, its largest defence-sector commitment to date, valuing Uforce at $6bn. Uforce, formed in 2022 from several Ukrainian developers of drones, unmanned vessels and counter‑UAS systems, said it will use proceeds to expand production in Ukraine and R&D centres in the UK, US and Germany.

On the 12th, Putin said Russia is aware that Ukraine is raising issues about a "gray zone", but for Russia the only dividing line with Ukraine is the state border.