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Drone hits Yandex data centre, in first such attack on Russia
Yandex said the fire forced it to suspend the facility and left some services unavailable as outage monitors reported a spike in complaints.
- On Thursday, a reported Ukrainian drone strike hit a major Yandex data center in Sasovo, Ryazan, causing a large fire and forcing the company to fully suspend operations at the facility.
- Located on the grounds of the Sasta machine-tool plant, the Sasovo data center serves as Yandex's largest facility, which has been under U.K. sanctions since 2024 for its role in Russia's defense sector.
- Yandex acknowledged an 'incident' and power-supply problems in its ru-central1-b cloud availability zone; core consumer services remained online despite disruptions to Yandex Cloud infrastructure.
- Emergency teams assessed infrastructure damage as Yandex stated it could not yet confirm whether restoring the data center equipment is possible, leaving operations suspended indefinitely.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed responsibility for the strike, stating "We always respond in mirror-like fashion," following weeks of Russian attacks on Ukrainian digital infrastructure.
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Ukraine Strikes Major Russian Tech Site
A Ukrainian drone attack partially disabled a data center operated by Russian technology company Yandex in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow, the company said Friday, marking the second reported strike on its data centers in two days. Yandex said the attack damaged part of the facility’s infrastructure and completely disabled several data center modules, […]
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