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Ukraine Strikes Major Russian Tech Site Yandex as Drone Attacks Intensify
- •A drone attack damaged Yandex infrastructure in the Vladimir region, causing a complete shutdown of its data center services.
- •Recent Ukrainian drone strikes have targeted Yandex data centers across multiple regions, disrupting cloud systems, AI development tools, and supercomputers.
- •Vladimir Governor Aleksandr Avdeev reported that the strikes damaged local electrical substations, knocking out municipal power grids before utility crews restored most services.
- •The Russian Defence Ministry claimed its air defenses intercepted 479 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight across 16 regions.
- •Yandex has removed the locations of its data centers across four Russian regions from its digital mapping platform following the attacks.
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Yandex, often described as Russia's Google and a major player in AI development, reported that its infrastructure was damaged in a drone attack, leading to a complete shutdown of its data centre services in the Vladimir region.
Enterprise systems hosted on Yandex Cloud suffered extensive outages affecting computing, storage, database management, and development pipelines. Disrupted tools included Compute Cloud, Object Storage, Managed Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and ClickHouse databases, and AI interfaces like the Yandex GPT API, SpeechKit, and Vision OCR.
Vladimir Governor Aleksandr Avdeev reported that utility crews restored heating and water supplies, along with roughly 80% of electricity service in the affected areas of Vladimir, by Sunday morning.
