KyivUkrainian drones have hit 3 of Yandex’s 6 Russian data centers.
Payments, email, ride-hailing and food delivery apps failed across Russia.
Ukraine moved state data to foreign clouds, while Russia’s sovereign internet law blocks Yandex from backups abroad, Russian bloggers argue.
Yandex has not said whether any of its 3 supercomputers were damaged.
Yandex says it cannot give a restoration timeline, and an unnamed technology expert says replacement could take 6 months.
How each outlet framed it
- Ars Technica
- frames the strikes as exposing Russia's centralized digital economy, citing pro-Kremlin bloggers warning of collapse
- The Record
- itemizes the three Yandex sites hit (Sasovo, Kaluga, Vladimir) and the AI supercomputers each houses
- netzpolitik.org
- debunks the rumor that Ukrainian strikes reduced far-right social bot activity, tracing it to AS13238 traffic drop only
Sources: Ars Technica, The Record, netzpolitik.org