diff --git a/lib/MirrorCache/Datamodule.pm b/lib/MirrorCache/Datamodule.pm
index 0995f2a0..5e233a58 100644
--- a/lib/MirrorCache/Datamodule.pm
+++ b/lib/MirrorCache/Datamodule.pm
@@ -519,6 +519,7 @@ sub _init_location($self) {
     my $p = $query->param('AVOID_COUNTRY');
     my @avoid_countries = ();
     @avoid_countries = ('by', 'ru') if $sanctioned_countries->{$country};
+    @avoid_countries = ('ua') if $country eq 'ru' || $country eq 'by';
     if ($p) {
         for my $c (split ',', $p) {
             next unless length($c) == 2;
diff --git a/t/lib/Dockerfile.environ.mariadb.experimental b/t/lib/Dockerfile.environ.mariadb.experimental
index 1dcf46c6..1b4ac930 100644
--- a/t/lib/Dockerfile.environ.mariadb.experimental
+++ b/t/lib/Dockerfile.environ.mariadb.experimental
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ ENV container docker
 ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8
 
 RUN zypper -n in curl # rpm --import needs curl atm
+RUN curl -IL https://mirror.mariadb.org/yum/11.8/sles15-amd64/repodata/repomd.xml
 RUN zypper ar -f http://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:infrastructure:MirrorCache/15.6 mc
-RUN zypper ar -f https://mirror.mariadb.org/yum/11.4/sles15-amd64 mariadb
+# RUN zypper ar -f https://mirror.mariadb.org/yum/11.8/sles15-amd64 mariadb
+RUN zypper ar -f https://mirror.netcologne.de/mariadb/mariadb-11.8.8/yum/sles/15.7/x86_64 mariadb
 RUN rpm --import https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
 RUN zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys ref