Ukraine VPS for v3 Onion Hidden Services

Ukraine is outside the legal reach of Russian and Belarusian censorship enforcement. RKN's blocklist applies to clearnet domains accessed from Russian ASNs; it cannot reach a v3 onion at all because there is no DNS to poison and no IP to null-route. Hosting in Ukraine adds physical and legal distance from the threat actor for operators whose audience is inside RU/BY.

Our Kyiv region nodes have direct routes to Russian residential ISPs through neutral peering, which means RU users with a Tor bridge reach the onion as fast as they would reach a domestic clearnet service. Average circuit time from RU residential to a Ukraine v3 onion is 6 to 9 seconds.

For onions whose users will mostly arrive via bridges (because their local Tor entry is blocked), we recommend boosting introduction-point count and enabling client-auth for high-risk operators:

HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hs_v3/
HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/run/onion.sock
HiddenServiceVersion 3
HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints 8
HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense 1
HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSRatePerSec 10
HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSBurstPerSec 50

Eight introduction points absorbs introduction-flooding attacks that have hit anti-Kremlin onions periodically since 2024. The lower DoS rate reflects the smaller legitimate request volume from a censored audience.

Honest disclosure: Ukraine has power outages. Our Kyiv POP runs N+1 diesel with 96-hour fuel reserves and Starlink uplink failover, so the externally observable availability of an onion remains above 99.5 percent even during scheduled outages. We publish monthly SLA reports inside the customer panel.

For operators whose target SLA is higher, run OnionBalance with one backend in Ukraine and one in Romania. The descriptor is signed once, but introduction points are distributed across both. RKN-targeted onions in particular benefit from this setup.

Our support team replies in Russian and Ukrainian. Payment is BTC or XMR only. No SMS, no card, no ID. The welcome message includes Ukrainian-language torrc templates and Russian-language operational guides.

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