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Yandex outages disrupt Russian services after data center strikes
Drone strikes damaged Yandex data centers in Russia on Oct.
8, 9 and 11, disrupting services used by people and businesses.
The outages affected Yandex apps and services including taxis, maps, email, payments and cloud tools, as well as outside platforms that rely on Yandex infrastructure.
Workers and business owners described problems with logistics, online teaching, document systems and access to stored files.
Yandex said it was prioritizing its most-used services, and it restored access to city services such as taxis, food delivery, car rental and scooters.
Some services and features remained limited, and Yandex did not give a timeline for full recovery.
The company said customer account records were preserved and their money was safe, while it waived fees for some cloud and virtual-office customers through the end of October.
The strikes also disrupted routine work and daily services, but the scale of longer-term economic effects remains unclear.
Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centers disrupted Yandex services and other platforms in October.
The outages affected services including taxis, food delivery, maps, email, payments and cloud computing.
Yandex said it was restoring services in stages, and reported that access to its city services had been restored by October 19.
A Ukrainian government agency reported sharp drops in activity by accounts it identified as pro-Russian after two strikes.
Mashable said it could not independently verify the agency’s findings or determine whether the accounts were automated.
- Who
- Ukrainian forces carried out the strikes, and Yandex and users of its services were affected.
- What
- Strikes on data centers disrupted online services and temporarily reduced activity by accounts identified as pro-Russian.
- When
- The reported strikes took place on October 8, 9 and 11, 2026; related disruptions continued afterward.
- Where
- Data centers in Russia, including facilities in Ryazan, Vladimir and St. Petersburg, were affected.
- Why
- Not stated
Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation
Mashable
Effect of the strikes
Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation
The agency said the strikes significantly disrupted Russian influence networks.
Mashable
Mashable said the reported drops were not independently verified and did not prove that the accounts were automated.
Duration and evidence
Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation
The agency’s report found sharp declines in activity after strikes on two Yandex facilities.
Mashable
Mashable noted that activity rebounded quickly and described the apparent disruption as short-lived.
A fire following a strike took a Yandex data center in Sasovo, Ryazan region, offline, according to Mashable.
Further strikes hit Yandex data centers, with the October 11 attack affecting a facility in Vladimir, according to the reports.
Yandex Pay partially restored its service, according to Эксперт.
Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation published its report on activity by accounts it flagged as showing signs of inauthentic behavior.
Yandex said access to its city services, including taxis and food delivery, had been restored.
- Yandex data center strikes
- October 8, 9 and 11, 2026
- Sasovo facility
- Located in Russia’s Ryazan region
- Affected cloud services
- 84, according to NetBlocks
- Yandex Pay
- Partially restored on October 13
- CCD report
- Analyzed 22,664 messages from 5,201 accounts between October 6 and 12
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What people are saying
But the scale turned out to be far more serious than we initially expected
We had to drop everything and focus on urgent problems with our services
Engineers are first restoring the services used by the most people, and continue working to make all services available in full in all regions as soon as possible.
substantial but short-lived
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When we started responding to Russia’s operation against our data centers, and when our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer
If confirmed, this is telling: Russian data centres get hit, and online activity around AfD suddenly plummets. 📉 So much talk about German patriotism… then the connection from Russia goes down. 🤔🇷🇺