In the last fewer days Ukraine has carried out drone attacks on Yandex data centers. 3 of the 5 facilities are severely damaged: in Sasów, Kaluga and Vladimir (localities east of Moscow).
Kiev argues that the targets of the attacks are objects that drive Russia's war against Ukraine. According to the Ukrainians, the failure of Yandex data centres will origin any Russian funds usually spent on armed conflict to be diverted to repair the resulting damage.
Yandex is 1 of the main technology companies in Russia, which is liable for a search engine of the same name, but besides applications for, among others, ordering food or taxis.
The Sunday attack (i.e. October 11th) followed the message of Donald Trump, the president of the United States, who urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian refineries so that Russia "could produce more fuel for abroad markets".
As a consequence of attacks on the first 2 Yandex data centers no 1 was injured – informed Yandex on his blog. The BBC besides claimed for the company that no 1 was injured in the fresh attack either.
According to the Russian technological giant, it is “hard to predict” the return of its services to action.
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The title photograph was taken by a user named WikiFido and is available on Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International. The text of the article was based on the following text and/or audiovisual sources:
- What is happening to our data centers, the iron heart of Yandex, published on yandex.com on 9.10.2026
- Ukraine strikes Yandex data centre in 3rd attack on Russian tech giant, published on bbc.com by Hafsa Khalil on 11.10.2026
