Ukraine Expands Drone Strikes on Data Centres Owned by Russia's Yandex
Yandex said several modules were disabled and services may be disrupted as Ukraine widened drone strikes against Russia’s digital infrastructure.
- On Thursday, October 8, a Ukrainian drone strike hit a Yandex data center in Sasovo, Ryazan, triggering a fire that forced a temporary halt to the facility's operations.
- The Sasovo facility housed two of Yandex's three supercomputers and shares an industrial site with the Sasta machine-tool plant, reportedly linked to Russia's Iskander ballistic missile production.
- Disruptions began around 4 p.m. Thursday, affecting major Russian media outlets including RIA Novosti and Kommersant, while DONATE NOWAvito recorded more than 14,000 complaints during the day.
- MosTransAvto linked its ticketing system suspension to the data center outage, estimating restoration could take up to 24 hours, while Russian Railways acknowledged that "some users" faced access difficulties.
- Yandex confirmed the attack affected "part of its infrastructure," following reports that the company had blurred its four Cloud data centers located in Mytishchi, Sasovo, Kaluga, and Vladimir.
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EADaily, October 9, 2026. For two days in a row, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been attacking the Russian digital giant Yandex. Two out of five data centers have already been damaged. What's next for Russians and the entire Russian Internet?
The drone and missile war between Kiev and Moscow continues: the Ukrainian capital lost power late at night due to the attacks, while internet service in Russia is constantly disrupted due to the attack on the Yandex data center. Trump is optimistic about the possibility of peace, and the Ukrainians seem to have come up with concrete peace plans, but Moscow seems unmoved for the moment. Our article is constantly updated with the most important n…
The Russians have regularly attacked Ukrainian data centers in recent days and weeks, this is how the Ukrainians responded to these blows.
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