Drone attack shuts a third Yandex data centre in Russia in 4 days
Yandex has lost a third major data centre in four days. The Russian tech company said on Sunday that a drone attack had left its site in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow, out of service, Reuters reported.
Nobody was hurt, Yandex said, though some of its services are down for users. The report does not name who sent the drones, and we have not independently checked the scale of the damage.
Three of the company’s five large data centres have now been hit. Besides Vladimir, Yandex runs sites in Sasovo, Kaluga, Ivanteevka, and Mytishchi, according to DatacenterDynamics.
The first strike came on Thursday, when a fire broke out at the Sasovo hub in the Ryazan region and work there stopped. On Friday, Ukrainian drones partly disabled the Kaluga site, southwest of Moscow.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, confirmed the Kaluga attack and framed it as payback for Russian...
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