Drones hit Yandex data centre in first major attack on Russian data hub
Yandex said the strike caused a fire and power-supply problems, and engineers were restoring services while customers were told to use other cloud zones.
- 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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According to open source information, the data center is located near a factory that manufactures machinery needed in the defense and aerospace industries.
It is the first drone attack on a data center in Russia. Moscow had attacked several Ukrainian data centers in the past.
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