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Russian bot traffic decimated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes knock multiple Yandex data centers offline

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  • Ukrainian drone strikes knock key Yandex data centers offline in Central Russia
  • Bot traffic on Yandex networks has dropped significantly as a result, with many services knocked offline and Yandex's Cloud Zones operating with 'limited functionality'
  • Data centers are quickly becoming key military targets as intelligence gathering and communications rely on cloud services

Ukraine has launched a series of drone strikes over the past week that have knocked multiple Russian data centers offline, resulting in internet bot traffic from the country dropping to almost zero.

The data centers were operated by Yandex - Russia’s domestic answer to Google - and traffic for the search engine has dropped to just 0.4% of its two week high.

Yandex traffic first dropped on October 8, 2026 after Ukraine struck a data center in Sasovo, Russia, and a second strike on a data center 220 miles to the west of Sasovo on October...

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