Russian bot activity plunged 84% after Ukraine hit Yandex data centers, but the bots were back at full strength within…
- Ukraine's CCD says suspected Russian bot posts in its sample fell 83.6% on October 8 after a strike shut Yandex's Sasovo data center
- The same data shows volume back above pre-strike levels by October 10, with a smaller 42.6% dip after the Vladimir shutdown
- Cloudflare and Graphika found no comparable drop in Western political communities, though Russian-language Telegram output fell 5% to 15%
Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) says suspected Russian bot accounts went almost silent after drones knocked out Yandex data centers earlier this month, with message volume across a monitored network falling 83.6% in a single day.
The findings come from an analytical report the CCD dated October 15 2026. Using Osavul monitoring software, analysts tracked 22,664 messages from 5,201 accounts showing signs of inauthentic behavior across 26 topics in Ukraine's Facebook and Telegram space between October 6 and 12.
The 83.6% figure is real, but the...
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