Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centers disrupt Yandex services
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Ukrainian military
Russia
October 2026
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Ukrainian drone strikes targeted Russian data centers, causing Yandex services to go offline. The attacks disrupted Yandex Pay and other digital services. Social media claims linking the attacks to a decline in disinformation bot traffic were debunked as misinterpretations of web crawler data.
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