Drone hits Yandex data centre, in first such attack on Russia
Yandex said the fire forced a full suspension, while outage monitors recorded more than 1,300 disruption reports for cloud and document services.
- A major Yandex data center in Ryazan Oblast was reportedly damaged in an overnight drone attack, located on the grounds of the Sasta machine-tool plant, a manufacturer of CNC equipment.
- Ryazan Governor Pavel Malkov previously described the Sasovo complex as a high-tech facility housing tens of thousands of servers supporting Russian defense industry operations and precision manufacturing.
- Yandex Cloud acknowledged an "incident" and power-supply problems in its "ru-central1-b availability zone", with disruptions beginning at 1:31 a.m. and prompting the company to advise customers to move services.
- The Sasta plant has been under sanctions since 2024 for its role in the Russian defense sector, though it remains unclear whether the factory, data center, or both were the intended targets.
- Neither regional authorities nor Ukraine's military had publicly confirmed the strike, while Public outage monitors showed no evidence of widespread disruptions across Yandex's main consumer services.
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A drone attack hits a data center of the Russian technology company Yandex. The fire interrupts operation and paralyses parts of the cloud infrastructure.
For the first time, Ukraine attacked a large AI data center in Russia. Explosive drones flew the night to a facility of the Russian Internet company Yandex. It was a counterattack after the devastating air attacks on Ukraine the day before.
"A drone attack caused a fire in the Yandex data centre in Sassovo, affecting part of its infrastructure," without causing any casualties," said the leading Russian digital technology company.
With a fire affecting the company's largest data center in Russia, customers were advised to move their data processing operations to other data centers and migrate some services. Ukraine did not take charge of the attack
Yandex, nicknamed the "Russian Google", is the main search engine in Russian and is widely used in Russia for services such as taxis and deliveries. It is also dominant in the Russian-speaking world. "A drone attack caused a fire in the Yandex data centre in Sassovo, affecting part of its infrastructure", without causing any casualties, declared the leading Russian digital technology company. Pavel Malkov, the governor of the Ryazan region, loca…
A large data center belonging to technology giant Yandex in Russia's Ryazan region was targeted by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A fire broke out at the facility following the attack, and the company announced that it had completely shut down the data center's operations. This incident marks the first confirmed significant UAV attack on a large data center in Russia.
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