Archive · 11 Oct 2026
Drone Attack Shuts Down Yandex Data Centre in Vladimir
Yandex is a technology company in Russia.
It said a drone attack damaged one of its data centres in the Vladimir region.
The centre had to shut down completely.
Yandex said nobody was hurt.
Some of its services were still unavailable.
Reuters reported that this was the third major data centre put out of action in a few days.
Yandex also said its centre in the Kaluga region was partly disabled earlier in the week.
Its data hub in Sasovo had also been shut down after an attack.
Yandex said a drone attack damaged its infrastructure in Russia’s Vladimir region.
The damage led to the complete shutdown of the company’s data centre there.
Yandex said nobody was injured, but several services remained unavailable.
Reuters reported this was the third major data centre taken out of action in recent days.
Yandex said its Kaluga data centre was partly disabled earlier this week, after its Sasovo hub was shut down following an attack.
- Who
- Yandex, a Russian technology and AI company.
- What
- A drone attack damaged infrastructure and caused the complete shutdown of Yandex’s Vladimir-region data centre.
- When
- Yandex announced the damage on Sunday.
- Where
- The Vladimir region of Russia.
- Why
- The data centre shut down because its infrastructure was damaged in a drone attack.
- Company
- Yandex
- Incident
- Drone attack damaged data-centre infrastructure
- Location
- Vladimir region, Russia
- Operational impact
- The data centre shut down completely; several services remained unavailable
- Injuries
- Yandex said nobody was injured
- Other affected sites
- Yandex said its Kaluga data centre was partly put out of action, and its Sasovo data hub was shut down after an attack
- Recent outages
- Reuters reported this was the third major data centre taken out of action in recent days