Yandex Shuts Vladimir Data Center After Third Strike on Its Facilities in Days
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Russian technology company Yandex said it completely suspended operations at a data center in Vladimir after a drone attack damaged the facility on Oct. 11, the third reported strike on one of its data centers in several days.
No one was injured, and emergency services responded at the site east of Moscow, according to Yandex. The company said some services were unavailable, its remaining infrastructure configuration was unstable and technical-support communications could also be disrupted. It advised customers to activate disaster-recovery plans while it assessed the damage and worked to restore connectivity.
The attack followed strikes on Yandex facilities in Kaluga and Sasovo. A drone attack in Kaluga on Oct. 9 disabled several modules and threatened further service interruptions. The previous day, a strike caused a fire and suspended operations at the Sasovo facility in the Ryazan region, which houses tens of thousands of servers and two of Yandex’s three supercomputers used for artificial-intelligence development.
Several outlets described the attacks as Ukrainian strikes, though Ukraine has not publicly confirmed responsibility for the Kaluga attack or the Vladimir attack. After the Sasovo strike, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine responds “in kind” to Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers but declined to provide details. Russian strikes on internet providers and data centers in Kyiv in late September disrupted service to about 100,000 households, according to Ukrainian officials.
HOW THIS STORY WAS MADE
Written from 8 articles, 6 with the publisher's own text; 8 independent newsrooms once syndicated copies count as one; this version written 78 h after the record first saw the story; the editor revised it.
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WHAT THE EDITOR DID
The second model checked the writer's draft against the same sources and changed it before publication. Struck words were in the draft; underlined words are its corrections.
WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: The story needs narrow corrections so the headline and attribution match what the sources support. - "Yandex Shuts Vladimir Data Center After Third Drone Strike in Days": The headline does not make clear it was the third strike on Yandex facilities, not the third strike on the Vladimir data center. - "after a drone attack damaged the facility overnight on Oct. 11": The sources say Yandex said the facility was damaged in a drone attack and that the attack was reported Sunday/Oct. 11, but only Militarnyi says overnight on Oct. 11; attributing the timing to Yandex is not supported. - "Several outlets described the attacks as Ukrainian strikes, though Ukraine has not publicly confirmed responsibility for the Kaluga attack.": This implies uncertainty only about Kaluga, but the sources do not say Ukraine publicly confirmed responsibility for the Vladimir attack either.
THE DRAFT AND THE CHANGES
Yandex Shuts Vladimir Data Center After Third DroneStrike Strikeon Its Facilities in Days
Russian technology company Yandex said it completely suspended operations at a data center in Vladimir after a drone attack damaged the facility overnight on Oct. 11, the third reported strike on one of its data centers in several days.
No one was injured, and emergency services responded at the site east of Moscow, according to Yandex. The company said some services were unavailable, its remaining infrastructure configuration was unstable and technical-support communications could also be disrupted. It advised customers to activate disaster-recovery plans while it assessed the damage and worked to restore connectivity.
The attack followed strikes on Yandex facilities in Kaluga and Sasovo. A drone attack in Kaluga on Oct. 9 disabled several modules and threatened further service interruptions. The previous day, a strike caused a fire and suspended operations at the Sasovo facility in the Ryazan region, which houses tens of thousands of servers and two of Yandex’s three supercomputers used for artificial-intelligence development.
Several outlets described the attacks as Ukrainian strikes, though Ukraine has not publicly confirmed responsibility for the Kaluga attack or the Vladimir attack. After the Sasovo strike, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine responds “in kind” to Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers but declined to provide details. Russian strikes on internet providers and data centers in Kyiv in late September disrupted service to about 100,000 households, according to Ukrainian officials.
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