Ukraine Steps up Strikes on Russia’s Tech Infrastructure, Damaging Third Data Center in 4 Days
Yandex said power interruptions hit its cloud zone as users reported taxi, courier and smart-home outages across several countries.
- On Sunday, a drone attack shut down a Yandex data center in Vladimir, causing service outages across Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Armenia; the incident marks the third strike on the company's infrastructure in four days.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated his forces are responding to Russian strikes on Ukrainian data hubs, telling journalists, "We always respond in kind," as Kyiv widens its long-range campaign.
- Yandex, often described as Russia's Google, reported service interruptions for users unable to order taxis or access banking services; on Saturday, the company updated its user agreement to classify drone and missile attacks as force majeure.
- The company reported power interruptions and is working to resolve the issue, following previous drone strikes that disabled Yandex facilities in the Ryazan and Kaluga regions on Thursday and Friday.
- President Donald Trump urged Zelenskyy to end the war, recently blaming him for high U.S. diesel prices, as the two nations remain deadlocked over four years after the full-scale invasion began.
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Russian army strikes Sloviansk and Kyiv, Ukraine hits Yandex
Russian forces struck two apartment blocks in Sloviansk, injuring four, and hit warehouses in Kyiv. Overnight, Ukrainian drones targeted Yandex's data centre in Vladimir, causing major service outages but no casualties.
Russian technology and AI company Yandex has been forced to completely shut down its data center in the Vladimir region after a drone attack. This is the third time the company has been hit in recent days. Two other incidents have resulted in partial disruptions.
For the third time within four days, the Russian technology and AI company Yandex has become the target of a Ukrainian drone attack. The data center in the Vladimir region had to be completely shut down.
Ukrainian drones attacked the Yandex data centre in Vladimir.
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