The Vladimir strike is the 3rd attack on Yandex infrastructure in 4 days, following previous hits on facilities in the Ryazan and Kaluga regions. These strikes have left only one major hub operational in the Moscow region and disrupted services in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Serbia. Yandex has added drone attacks to its list of force majeure events to shield itself from liability after losing two cloud availability zones and multiple layers of redundancy.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Ukraine Disables 78% of Yandex Cloud After 3rd Data Center Strike
Tech10 days ago
A Yandex data center in Russia's Vladimir region has ceased all operations following an overnight wave of Ukrainian drone attacks. Russian state media Tass and Yandex confirmed the facility is entirely shut down, causing 78% of Yandex Cloud's network to stop responding to outside connections according to metrics from Netblocks and IODA. The collapse has disabled critical database clusters and developer tools, while triggering widespread outages for consumer services including Yandex Taxi, Yandex Food, and Yandex Pay.
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