GoKawiilUkrainian drone strikes knock out Yandex data centers, cutting bot traffic to 0.4%
Cloudflare data shows bot traffic from Yandex's network has collapsed to just 0.4% of its two-week peak following a third Ukrainian drone strike on the company's data centers. Earlier strikes hit a Sasovo facility housing two supercomputers and a larger campus in Kaluga, while Yandex Cloud's status page lists at least 84 services currently offline. NetBlocks reports Yandex Cloud traffic down to 30% and Yandex LLC traffic down to 63%.
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The strikes appear to be Ukraine's retaliation for Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers, which had disrupted several piracy sites, suggesting the conflict is increasingly targeting digital infrastructure on both sides. Because Starlink is unavailable in Russia and the domestic Rassvet satellite alternative has suffered launch failures, ordinary Russians may have few backup options if Yandex's outages persist, potentially amplifying the real-world impact on everyday internet access.
- Yandex bot traffic fell to 0.4% of its two-week peak after a third drone strike.
- Attacks hit Yandex data centers in Sasovo, Kaluga, and reportedly Vladimir.
- At least 84 Yandex Cloud services are currently reported offline.
Source: tomshardware.com — Jowi Morales, 2026-10-11
Published there as: “Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers”
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