Ukrainian drones hit Russia's biggest data centre
Cloudflare said automated traffic from Yandex’s network fell about 94% after the strikes, while Ukraine said the attacks were aimed at war revenue.
- On Wednesday, Ukrainian drones struck a major Sberbank data center in Balakovo, Saratov region. Ukrainian defense manufacturer Fire Point confirmed the operation, with OSINT monitoring group Exilenova reporting explosions beginning at approximately 4 a.m.
- This strike follows three similar drone attacks on Yandex data centers in Ryazan and Vladimir over the past week, establishing a clear pattern of Ukrainian operations targeting Russian digital infrastructure.
- The targeted complex, valued at more than $1 billion, is part of a major data center project. Reports indicate the attack also struck a nearby transport terminal and the industrial zone of the MZ Balakovo steel plant.
- Sberbank First Deputy CEO Alexander Vedyakhin claimed "all of Sberbank's systems and services are operating normally," yet reports indicated more than 80 services were affected. Saratov Governor Roman Busargin confirmed one person was killed.
- Designed to host approximately 3,000 server racks and up to 120,000 servers, the facility supports Russia's state-backed GosTech platform and is scheduled to host Russia's biggest supercomputer by 2027.
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‘A Forced Digital Detox’: Russia’s Name for Its Strikes on Ukrainian Data Centers Now Describes What Moscow Is Getting Back
Ukrainian drones struck Sberbank’s massive data center in Balakovo, a site billed as Europe’s largest and slated to host Russia’s biggest supercomputer. Sberbank says its systems are operating normally, but the strike follows Ukrainian attacks that have disabled half of Yandex’s data centers, answering Russia’s own campaign against Ukrainian ones.
Ukrainian drones hit the biggest data center in Russia on Wednesday, in a series of attacks that seem to pursue sabotage of Moscow's plans to develop artificial intelligence technologies capable of competing with those in the US and China, Reuters reports.
<p>Strikes on two Russian refineries turned out to be fake: what Ukraine actually attacked on October 14 Ukraine did not attack Russian refineries on October 14, refuting the Russian statements. At the same time, drones successfully hit the data center “Sberbank</p>”.
The attack on the Balakovo data center, owned by Sberbank, the largest bank and technology company in the country, followed the three attacks last week on data centers owned by Russian technology group Yandex. Article Ukraine hit the largest data center in Russia VIDEO appears first in Romania TV.
It's a massive project worth over $1 billion.
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