Drone Strikes Hit Three Yandex Data Centers and Disrupt Services
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Ukrainian drone strikes damaged three Yandex data centers in western Russia over four days, forcing shutdowns and disrupting services in Russia and neighboring countries.
Yandex said its facilities in Sasovo, Ryazan region, and Vladimir were completely shut after attacks on Oct. 8 and Oct. 11, while a strike in the Kaluga region on Oct. 9 disabled part of that center’s infrastructure. No injuries were reported at the Vladimir facility. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine was responding to Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers.
The outages affected Yandex services including its Alisa assistant, cloud storage and financial products. Yandex fintech chief Dima Pirogov said some users could not check balances, transfer money or make purchases. The company said it was restoring services and arranging capacity with other cloud providers, but had not provided a firm timeline.
Yandex Go taxi and delivery services were also disrupted in Kazakhstan for about 36 hours, while some services in Uzbekistan worked intermittently. Yandex said Kazakh users’ personal data remained stored in Kazakhstan, but explained that components distributed across countries can affect availability elsewhere.
Claims that the strikes caused Russian social-media bot activity to collapse were not supported by the cited Cloudflare data, The Verge reported. The figures tracked automated requests from Yandex systems, including web crawlers used for search indexing and other functions, rather than Russia-wide disinformation activity. Cloudflare charts showed broader Russian bot traffic remained largely unchanged around the attacks.
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WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: Revise the headline to avoid saying all three data centers were shut when one was only partially disabled. - "Drone Strikes Shut Three Yandex Data Centers and Disrupt Services": The sources say two Yandex data centers were completely shut, while the Kaluga facility had part of its infrastructure disabled, so the title overstates the shutdowns.
THE DRAFT AND THE CHANGES
Drone Strikes ShutHit Three Yandex Data Centers and Disrupt Services
Ukrainian drone strikes damaged three Yandex data centers in western Russia over four days, forcing shutdowns and disrupting services in Russia and neighboring countries. Yandex said its facilities in Sasovo, Ryazan region, and Vladimir were completely shut after attacks on Oct. 8 and Oct. 11, while a strike in the Kaluga region on Oct. 9 disabled part of that center’s infrastructure. No injuries were reported at the Vladimir facility. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine was responding to Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers. The outages affected Yandex services including its Alisa assistant, cloud storage and financial products. Yandex fintech chief Dima Pirogov said some users could not check balances, transfer money or make purchases. The company said it was restoring services and arranging capacity with other cloud providers, but had not provided a firm timeline. Yandex Go taxi and delivery services were also disrupted in Kazakhstan for about 36 hours, while some services in Uzbekistan worked intermittently. Yandex said Kazakh users’ personal data remained stored in Kazakhstan, but explained that components distributed across countries can affect availability elsewhere. Claims that the strikes caused Russian social-media bot activity to collapse were not supported by the cited Cloudflare data, The Verge reported. The figures tracked automated requests from Yandex systems, including web crawlers used for search indexing and other functions, rather than Russia-wide disinformation activity. Cloudflare charts showed broader Russian bot traffic remained largely unchanged around the attacks.
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