This incident is the third strike by Ukrainian forces targeting Yandex's data infrastructure to date. Local residents in the Vladimir region reported multiple explosions during the overnight attack. Yandex operates Russia's leading search engine and provides a broad suite of cloud and digital services.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Ukrainian Drones Force Yandex Vladimir Data Center Shutdown
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Widespread outages hit Yandex Cloud services on Oct. 11 after a drone strike set a facility in Russia's Vladimir region on fire. Russian state media Tass confirmed the total shutdown of the data center, which left key developer tools, databases and platform components unavailable. The ru-central1-a zone experienced a complete power failure, disrupting operations across the network of the Russian internet company.
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