Ukraine Expands Drone Strikes on Data Centres Owned by Russia's Yandex
The outage-monitoring service Downdetector recorded more than 14,000 complaints as banks, media sites and transport services were affected.
- On Thursday, October 8, a Ukrainian drone strike hit a Yandex data center in Sasovo, Ryazan, triggering a fire that forced a temporary halt to the facility's operations.
- The Sasovo facility housed two of Yandex's three supercomputers and shares an industrial site with the Sasta machine-tool plant, reportedly linked to Russia's Iskander ballistic missile production.
- Disruptions began around 4 p.m. Thursday, affecting major Russian media outlets including RIA Novosti and Kommersant, while DONATE NOWAvito recorded more than 14,000 complaints during the day.
- MosTransAvto linked its ticketing system suspension to the data center outage, estimating restoration could take up to 24 hours, while Russian Railways acknowledged that "some users" faced access difficulties.
- Yandex confirmed the attack affected "part of its infrastructure," following reports that the company had blurred its four Cloud data centers located in Mytishchi, Sasovo, Kaluga, and Vladimir.
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