Ukrainian drone strikes on three Yandex data centers (October 8-11) have hit Russia's largest technology company, with services still unstable six days later. Facilities in Sesovo and Vladimir were taken completely offline, while Kluga was partially hit - together bringing down more than 80 cloud services at peak and disrupting everyday applications that millions of Russians depend on. Yandex Pay, Maps, Taxi, Navigator and Alice's AI assistant remain down or unavailable in multiple regions as of today. Yandex Cloud is in emergency mode with compute, databases, Kubernetes and AI services degraded or offline. The company waived fees until October and told customers to use backup options. Yandex claims users' money and data are safe but acknowledges lingering access issues. The Vladimir facility alone was a 50 MW site designed for ~2,880 racks of servers. Physical repairs may take weeks to months, depending on damage to servers, power, and cooling systems.

Ukrainian drone strikes on three Yandex data centers (October 8-11) have hit Russia's largest technology company, with services still unstable six days later. Facilities in Sesovo and Vladimir were taken completely offline, while Kluga was partially hit - together bringing down more than 80 cloud services at peak and disrupting everyday applications that millions of Russians depend on. Yandex Pay, Maps, Taxi, Navigator and Alice's AI assistant remain down or unavailable in multiple regions as of today. Yandex Cloud is in emergency mode with compute, databases, Kubernetes and AI services degraded or offline. The company waived fees until October and told customers to use backup options. Yandex claims users' money and data are safe but acknowledges lingering access issues. The Vladimir facility alone was a 50 MW site designed for ~2,880 racks of servers. Physical repairs may take weeks to months, depending on damage to servers, power, and cooling systems.