A Ukrainian drone strike hit a major data centre owned by Russian\ntechnology company Yandex in the city of Vladimir in the early hours of\nSunday (11 October), local time. The attack halted operations at the\nfacility and disrupted more than 80 digital services and cloud\ninfrastructure components.<\/p>\n
According to the Kyiv Post, the 40\u201350-megawatt data centre in the\nEnergetik district was the third precision strike on Yandex\u2019s server\ninfrastructure in the past four days. The information was reported by\nthe Telegram channels ASTRA and Crimean Wind.<\/p>\n
The facility was designed to house up to 2,880 server racks and is\none of Yandex\u2019s main data-processing centres.<\/p>\n
After the explosion, Yandex confirmed that operations at its Vladimir\ndata centre had been suspended. The outage then spread to various\ndigital services in Russia, including the Alice voice assistant, Yandex\nMusic, the Telemost video-conferencing app and Yandex Smart Home.<\/p>\n
Services operated by companies using Yandex Cloud were also\ndisrupted. Computing, data storage, database management and software\ndevelopment systems were among those affected.<\/p>\n
Affected services included Compute Cloud, Object Storage, Managed\nKubernetes, and the PostgreSQL and ClickHouse databases. Developer tools\nand artificial intelligence services, including the YandexGPT API,\nSpeechKit and Vision OCR, were also hit.<\/p>\n
Mobile banking disrupted<\/strong><\/p>\n The effects of the attack extended beyond the Yandex ecosystem. Users\nreported connectivity problems with banking apps, ride-hailing services\nand major retail chains such as Magnit and Fix Price. The disruption\nalso affected third-party commercial platforms in Russia and\nneighbouring countries.<\/p>\n Vladimir Region Governor Aleksandr Avdeev said the drone attack\ndamaged several local electricity substations, disrupting the city\u2019s\npower network.<\/p>\n Avdeev said utility workers had restored heating and water supplies,\nas well as around 80 per cent of electricity services in the affected\npart of Vladimir Region, by Sunday morning.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry claimed that its air defence\nsystems had intercepted 479 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight. The\ndrones were detected across 16 Russian regions, including Vladimir,\nBelgorod, Bryansk, Kursk and Rostov, as well as the Crimean Peninsula\nand the Black Sea.<\/p>\n The strike on the Vladimir data centre adds to a series of attacks on\nRussia\u2019s cloud-computing infrastructure over the past week.<\/p>\n On Thursday (8 October), Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex data centre\nin Sasovo, in Ryazan Region. The attack sparked a fire and forced the\nfacility to suspend all operations.<\/p>\n That incident disrupted server infrastructure used by Russian\nRailways (RZhD), mobile operator MegaFon and several national media\norganisations.<\/p>\n A day later, drones struck another Yandex facility in Kaluga, the\nregional capital southwest of Moscow. Yandex confirmed that the attack\ndisabled several of its hardware modules.<\/p>\n Following the series of attacks, Yandex removed the locations of its\ndata centres in four Russian regions from its digital maps platform. The\nrepeated outages also put pressure on Yandex shares, which fell by\naround 4 per cent on the Moscow Exchange early in the week.<\/p>\n Ukrainian military analysts said systematic attacks on data centres\nand corporate communications networks could disrupt Russian logistics\nand company administration, and weaken the digital command-and-control\ncapabilities supporting Russia\u2019s military operations.<\/p>",
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