Russia's Yandex says data centre in Vladimir area shut down after drone attack
Yandex said the strike forced the site offline and disrupted cloud services, with automated traffic from its network falling to 0.4% of its recent peak.
- On Sunday, a drone attack shut down a Yandex data center in Vladimir, causing service outages across Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Armenia; the incident marks the third strike on the company's infrastructure in four days.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated his forces are responding to Russian strikes on Ukrainian data hubs, telling journalists, "We always respond in kind," as Kyiv widens its long-range campaign.
- Yandex, often described as Russia's Google, reported service interruptions for users unable to order taxis or access banking services; on Saturday, the company updated its user agreement to classify drone and missile attacks as force majeure.
- The company reported power interruptions and is working to resolve the issue, following previous drone strikes that disabled Yandex facilities in the Ryazan and Kaluga regions on Thursday and Friday.
- President Donald Trump urged Zelenskyy to end the war, recently blaming him for high U.S. diesel prices, as the two nations remain deadlocked over four years after the full-scale invasion began.
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Data Center Danger in Russia
The digital lives of Russians have been disrupted for several days now. Some services and mobile app features linked to the Russian IT giant Yandex are down due to a technical failure. Some users are struggling to open files sent to their email accounts; others cannot order food at what used to be McDonald’s or […]
Physical data centers are playing an increasingly large role in warfare. Last week, Ukraine attacked multiple data centers belonging to the Russian tech company Yandex. As a result, internet services went down in Russia and surrounding countries. Additionally, a decrease in Russian disinformation and online trolling was observed in Ukraine.
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SIC NotíciasOn the Russian side, an oil refinery and Yandex technology data center were targeted by the attack. In Ukraine, several areas of Kiev were left without electricity following Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
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