Science & Tech · Cybersecurity · 14 hrs ago
Drone attacks disrupt Yandex services and cloud servers in Russia
Yandex, a major Russian technology company, had widespread connection problems on Sunday.
The disruption followed a Ukrainian drone attack on data centres in Vladimir, according to network monitoring data.
About 80 percent of connections to Yandex servers were working that morning, while the figure for its cloud servers was about 30 percent.
Yandex services include search, navigation, streaming and food delivery, and many businesses use its cloud systems.
Two of the company’s three supercomputers in Sasovo were also out of service after an earlier attack and a fire at a data centre.
Yandex said it faced difficult challenges in keeping its services running.
Ukraine’s defence ministry had not commented on the reported attacks by Sunday afternoon.
Yandex services and cloud servers in Russia suffered major connectivity problems after reported Ukrainian drone attacks on data centers.
NetBlocks data showed Yandex server connections fell to about 80 percent of normal levels on Sunday morning.
Connections to Yandex cloud servers fell to about 30 percent, according to the report.
Reuters reported two other outages on Thursday and Friday after attacks on data centers.
Two of Yandex’s three supercomputers in Sasovo were reportedly out of service after an attack and a fire.
- Who
- Yandex, a major Russian internet company, was affected. Ukraine was reported to have carried out the drone attacks.
- What
- Connectivity to Yandex servers and cloud services fell sharply after attacks on data centers.
- When
- The latest disruption was reported on Sunday morning, October 11, 2026. Two other outages were reported on Thursday and Friday.
- Where
- Data centers in Vladimir, Kaluga and Sasovo, Russia, were mentioned.
- Why
- The reported outages followed Ukrainian drone attacks on data centers. The sources do not state the attacks’ purpose.
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An attack and fire at a data center in Sasovo reportedly put two of Yandex’s three supercomputers out of service.
After an attack on a data center in Kaluga, Yandex reportedly had to partially stop operations there.
NetBlocks data showed a sharp fall in Yandex connections, which the organization linked to a reported drone attack on data centers in Vladimir.
- Yandex server connections
- About 80 percent remained on Sunday morning
- Yandex cloud connections
- About 30 percent remained on Sunday morning
- Sasovo supercomputers
- Two of three reportedly out of service
- Vladimir
- Russian city where a drone attack was linked to the latest connectivity drop
- Kaluga
- Yandex reportedly partially stopped operations after a Friday attack
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