Drones hit Yandex data centre in first major attack on Russian data hub
Yandex said the fire forced a full shutdown, and outage trackers recorded more than 1,300 user reports of disrupted cloud 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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Ukrainian Drones Hit Yandex Data Center After Wave of Russian Attacks
A Ukrainian drone attack ignited a fire at a data center owned by Russian tech giant Yandex in the Ryazan region overnight, the company said Thursday, suspending the site’s operations and triggering service disruptions.
What happened was what was to be expected in view of the scale of the USO attacks on infrastructure facilities on Russian territory, and the plans to attack deep Russian territory each month confirm in person Zelensky, stating that he does not intend to halt or reduce this process.
Ukrainian drones hit an important Yandex data center - traditionally known as Russia's "Google of Russia" - in the Riazan region, Russia, causing a fire and suspension of operations. Yandex is one of the most important companies in Russia in the field of artificial intelligence and technology.
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