Yandex, often described as Russia’s Google, has suspended operations at a data centre in Vladimir after it was damaged in a Ukrainian drone strike - the third hit on the company’s facilities in a single week. The firm said no one was injured but that connectivity had been interrupted; earlier strikes damaged centres in Sasovo and Kaluga and knocked some services offline, including its AI chatbot and smart-home functions. Yandex, which also operates widely used taxi and food-delivery apps, relies on five data centres for normal service and warned it was difficult to predict when full operations would resume.
The attacks form part of a broader escalation in strikes on infrastructure by both sides as the conflict enters its fifth year: Kyiv says it is targeting assets that generate revenue for Moscow to starve the war effort and force resource-diversion for repairs, while Russia continues bombardments inside Ukraine that have caused civilian casualties in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia. The strikes follow wider tensions over energy and diplomacy, including a US president’s public warning to Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian refineries amid controversy over a diesel deal that drew criticism in Europe and condemnation from Ukraine’s leader.
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