Russia’s Yandex says data centre in Vladimir area shut down after drone attack

Add ARY News on GoogleFollow on Google DiscoverSmoke billows from Yandex's Sasovo hub, one of the company's five large data centres, after a fire following a drone strike forced the suspension of operations at the site, which hosts tens of thousands of servers, Sasovo, Russia, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video on Otober 8, 2026. SOCIAL MEDIA/via REUTERSAAResizeMOSCOW: Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Sunday ​that its infrastructure had been ‌damaged in a drone attack, resulting in the complete shutdown of its data ​centre in the Vladimir region.

No ​one was injured in the attack, ⁠but some of Yandex’s services ​are currently unavailable to users, the ​company said.

On Friday, Yandex, which is heavily involved ‌in ⁠Russia’s AI development and is sometimes called “Russia’s Google”, said its data centre in the Kaluga region southwest of ​Moscow had ​been ⁠struck by Ukrainian drones and partly put out of ​action.

A day earlier, a Ukrainian ​attack shut ⁠down Yandex’s data hub in Sasovo, southeast of Moscow, where two ⁠of ​the three supercomputers used ​to develop the company’s AI model are housed.

MOSCOW: Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Sunday ​that its infrastructure had been ‌damaged in a drone attack, resulting in the complete shutdown of its data ​centre in the Vladimir region. No ​one was injured in the attack, ⁠but some of Yandex’s services ​are currently unavailable to users, the ​company said. This is […]