Drone hits Yandex data centre, in first such attack on Russia
- 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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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
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.
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.
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