The main freight exchange is not working in Belarus. Its servers were located in Kyiv, which Russia is now striking
Lardi-Trans is a large logistics platform connecting carriers and clients. Like Uber, but for business.
Lardi-Trans was founded by Ukrainians from Kharkiv in 1999. Since 2017, a representative office, LLC "LardiBelTrans" in Gomel, has been operating in Belarus. The exchange did not stop working with Belarus after the start of the war.
Belarusians use the Lardi-Trans website approximately twice as often as the website of its main competitor in the region — Russian ATI.su.
According to Similarweb service estimates, for June-August 2026, the Belarusian exchange website was visited about 467 thousand times, which is approximately 155 thousand visits monthly. Almost all (99.4%) were from Belarus.
But for several days now, the order exchange has been down. The website displays a placeholder page stating that the platform is temporarily unavailable.
Not only the Belarusian version is down. On the main website lardi-trans.com, the company states in Ukrainian and English that operations will resume on September 29 and apologizes for the inconvenience. Neither the company's news website nor its Polish and Bulgarian versions are opening.
Lardi-Trans does not explain what exactly happened. However, it can be assumed that this is related to recent Russian bombardments.
Since early September, Russia has been systematically attacking Ukrainian data centers and communication hubs. Only between September 23-27, "Parkovy", Etherlink, "Datagroup", and Cosmonova data centers were damaged in Kyiv. Tens of thousands of households were left without internet, and TV channels operated with interruptions.
According to the European internet address registry RIPE, the company has its own network in Kyiv's "Volia" data center.
Connectivity of this data center with the internet was lost on September 23 around 16:30 Kyiv time. On that day, Russia struck the "Parkovy" congress and exhibition center in Kyiv twice with drones, where such equipment is located. Technical methods confirm that Lardi's servers are still not responding.
Currently, the main victims of the situation in Belarus can be named as small companies and individual entrepreneurs (IEs) involved in logistics (every fifth IE in the country works in the transport sector) who do not have long-term transportation contracts. For such carriers, "Lardi" remains the main source for finding orders.
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