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The Record and other outlets report that Ukrainian drone strikes hit a third Yandex data center in Vladimir over the weekend, after earlier damage to sites in Sasovo and Kaluga, leaving three of Yandex’s six Russian facilities affected. Yandex said the Vladimir data center shut down completely and that the remaining infrastructure is unstable.
That matters because the strikes are now taking out physical capacity, not just causing a temporary outage. With redundancy already cut back, Yandex Cloud, Yandex Pay, and other services that ride on its servers have less spare infrastructure to fail over to, while the company’s supercomputing capacity for AI training is also degraded.
For customers and services built on Yandex infrastructure, the exposure now sits in the provider’s ability to recover capacity, not only in the damaged sites themselves. Even if individual systems come back online, the incident can keep cloud, payments, and training workloads unstable until the underlying datacenter footprint is rebuilt.
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Yandex confirms service outage as users lose access to cloud files
Russian cloud services provider Yandex announced that drone attacks damaged three of its data centers, forcing it to shut down two facilities and partially disable a third.
Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline
Techies at 'Russia's Google' work around the clock as users await access to funds and network connectivity falls to 30% of normal
The Record from Recorded Future
Ukraine strikes third Yandex data center, disrupting digital services across Russia
A third Yandex data center in Russia was hit by Ukrainian drones over the weekend, forcing it to shut down and causing further disruptions to cloud services, payments, deliveries and other online services across the country.
The Record from Recorded Future
Major Yandex data center in Russia hit by Ukrainian drone strike
A drone strike on a large Yandex data center caused a significant disruption to the Russian tech giant's network, with connectivity reportedly falling to around 70 percent of normal levels.
Part of the PlainSec briefing for 2026-10-13