Russia's Largest Yandex Data Center Reportedly Hit in Drone Attack
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Russia's largest Yandex data center reportedly hit in drone attack
The Sasovo data center is located on the grounds of the Sasta machine-tool plant, a manufacturer of metal-cutting and high-precision CNC metalworking machines used across Russian industry, including the defense-industrial, aerospace, oil and gas, and heavy machinery sectors.
‼️The enemy attacked a Yandex plant and data center in the Ryazan region, causing a major outage in the RuNet
After the attack on Yandex's data center, a major outage occurred in the company's resources, analysts report.▪️The attack also partially disabled a wide range of Yandex Cloud infrastructure: databases, cloud services, AI, security, and monitoring...
A fire broke out on the territory of the Sasta machine-building plant in Sasovo, Ryazan region, where the Yandex data center is located. Publications by Astra and Exilenova+ linked the incident to a suspected attack, but there is currently no official confirmation from the Russian authorities about the cause of the fire. According to Astra, eyewitness footage was analyzed by an OSINT specialist, who determined that the fire broke out in the Sast…
On the night of 8 October 2026, the Ryazansk region and the Republic of Bashkortostan were subjected to a massive attack by unmanned aerial vehicles.
In the city of Sasovo, Ryazan region of the Russian Federation, the industrial complex where the Sasta machine building plant and the Yandex data center are located are reported. After the attack, a large-scale fire broke out on the object, and failures were recorded in the work of Yandex Cloud.
The attack on the data centre, Yandex DC Sasovo, was reported by Exilenova+ and HLC-UDPU. The latter indicates that there has been a "strong fire." The data centre is located on the premises of the Sasta machine-building plant, notes Astra with reference to its own OSINT analysis.
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