Russia's Yandex says data centre in Vladimir area shut down after drone attack
Yandex said the strike damaged its infrastructure and cut off more than 80 cloud and consumer services, including banking and ride-hailing apps.
- On Sunday, a Ukrainian drone attack damaged Yandex infrastructure in Vladimir, marking the third precision strike on the company's server infrastructure in four days.
- Sequential drone strikes targeted Yandex facilities in the Ryazan and Kaluga regions, suggesting a coordinated campaign against the physical infrastructure underpinning Russia's digital platforms.
- Widespread disruptions affected more than 80 digital services, while Vladimir Region Governor Aleksandr Avdeev reported strikes damaged local electrical substations, restoring roughly 80 percent of electrical service.
- "Operations at the data centre have been completely suspended," Yandex added, warning that "the remaining resource configuration is considered unstable" as teams assessed damage.
- Yandex, often dubbed "Russia's Google," runs the country's most popular search engine; the facility, designed to house up to 2,880 server racks, represents a foundational processing hub.
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Ukrainian strike shuts down Yandex data center housing major Russian supercomputer
On October 11, 2026, Ukraine reportedly struck Russia’s most powerful supercomputer overnight, shutting down the Yandex data center in Vladimir. The supercomputer, known as Galushkin, was housed at the site targeted in the attack. Yandex likely lost its last remaining supercomputer, Galushkin, in the overnight drone strike—Russian sources say it was the country’s most powerful machine. Galushkin was housed at the Vladimir data center, which Ukra…
Ukraine Drone Strikes Take Down Third Yandex Data Center as Outage Spreads Across Russia
Ukraine has struck the Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia, marking the third such attack in four days and disrupting more than eighty services including music streaming, taxi services, AI tools and smart home systems.
For the third time within a week an attack on Yandex infrastructure hits. Now a data center near Moscow is completely out of operation.
Die Presse
In a drone attack, the infrastructure of a data center was hit about 170 kilometers east of Moscow. Some services are not accessible.
Dnevni list Danas
Naslovi.netIn a Ukrainian drone attack, the data center of the Russian technology giant Yandex was disabled, the company announced today.
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