Ukrainian drone attack halts operations at Yandex data centre in Vladimir2026-10-11A Ukrainian drone attack damaged Yandex’s data centre in Vladimir, and the company said operations there had stopped completely.Yandex said there were no casualties and repairs were under way.Disruptions affected Yandex services, including its taxi and music apps, as well as its cloud platform.Euronews reported that this was the third Yandex data centre attacked in October.The Vladimir strike followed drone attacks on Yandex data centres in Sasovo and Kaluga earlier that week.Cloudflare data showed a sharp fall in automated traffic from Yandex’s network after the strikes, but the measure includes legitimate traffic and does not establish whether Russian influence bots were affected.En Russie, plusieurs services du géant de la tech Yandex ont été affectés par une attaque de drone (Franceinfo)"En cinq ans, ça n'était jamais arrivé": en frappant Yandex, géant de la tech, les drones ukrainiens... (BFMTV)Did Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres cause Russian bot activity to plummet? (Euronews)Russia’s Yandex says data centre in Vladimir shut down after drone attack (Al Jazeera)Russian army strikes Sloviansk and Kyiv as Ukrainian drones hit third Yandex data centre (Euronews)Russie: pourquoi frapper Yandex ne suffit pas à stopper la désinformation russe (RFI)Les frappes de drones ukrainiennes sur des data centers en Russie ont-elles donné un sérieux coup à la désinformation pro-russe ? (Franceinfo)Ukraine strikes Yandex data centre in third attack on Russian tech giant (The Nation)Nuevo golpe de Ucrania a la infraestructura tecnológica rusa: volvió a atacar con drones un centro de datos de Vladimir (Infobae)Ukraine steps up attacks on Russian tech infrastructure, damages third data center (The Times of India)Yandex Shuts Down Russia Data Centre After Drone Attack (ARY News)Drone hits data center of Russia's 'Google' in 1st for Ukraine war (Daily Sabah)İnternet devi patlamalarda çöktü: Erişim durdu (Sözcü)Ukrayna'nın İHA saldırıları İstanbul'daki taksicileri vurdu (Sözcü)