Russia's Yandex says data centre in Vladimir area shut down after drone attack
- A Ukrainian drone strike damaged Yandex’s data center in Vladimir, east of Moscow, forcing the facility to shut down completely.
- Yandex said no one was injured, but some services became unavailable while engineers worked to restore connectivity.
- The Vladimir strike was the third attack on a Yandex data center in four days, following strikes in another location and Kaluga.
- The disruptions affected digital services, including taxi bookings and artificial intelligence tools.
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Ukraine dismantled the centers of Yandex between 8 and 11 October. As confirmed by the analysis of web flows, automated profiles that artificially amplified theological indignation against the Pontiff disappeared within 24 hours. A campaign of disinformation and propaganda one year long
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