Yandex said on Sunday that operations at its data centre in Vladimir, east of Moscow, had been completely suspended after a drone strike, with no injuries reported. The company warned in a Telegram service alert that its platform was operating in emergency mode and advised users to activate disaster-recovery plans, adding that the remaining resource configuration was considered unstable. It is the third strike on Yandex facilities in a week: the company said Ukrainian drones partly disabled its Kaluga data centre on Friday, and a day earlier an attack shut its Sasovo hub, which houses two of the three supercomputers used to develop Yandex’s AI model. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that Kyiv responds in mirror-like fashion to Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centres.
Yandex shuts Vladimir data centre after drone strike
Yandex shut down its data centre in Vladimir after a drone strike on Sunday, the third attack on the company's facilities in a week, with no injuries reported and several services disrupted while it assesses the damage.
Why it matters: The strike arc on Yandex's AI infrastructure, which houses supercomputers used to train its models, marks an escalation in both sides' targeting of tech infrastructure in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Data as of Sunday morning, October 11, 2026: the Al Jazeera article opened and read in full. Single-sourced: the strike details come from Yandex's own statement, and attribution of the earlier Kaluga and Sasovo strikes to Ukrainian drones is the outlet's and the company's account, not independently corroborated.
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- Russia's Yandex says data centre in Vladimir shut down after drone attack · Al Jazeera · 2026-10-11