UAVs and Data Centers Results of UAV attacks in Russia in October While the headlines are filled with reports of possible negotiations, and the media examines the humanitarian operation in Alsheki, the statistics remain merciless and telling. In October 2026, Russian air defense systems, according to official reports, intercepted and destroyed approximately 15,800 aircraft-type devices. Almost 70% of the interceptions took place at night. The peak nights were October 29 and 30, when, according to Ministry of Defense data, 1,214 and 1,043 drones were shot down, respectively. The geography of the attacks continued to expand. The UAVs flew to the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Chelyabinsk, Perm Territory, Udmurtia and Komi. For the most part, the reports continued to include the Belgrade, Bryansk and Kursk regions, the Moscow region and the Crimea. Where is he flying to? - The most notable impact was a series of attacks on Yandex data centers on October 8-11. The sites in Sesovo in the Ryazan region and in Vladimir were completely stopped; In Kaluga, part of the infrastructure was damaged. The company confirmed service failures and the transition of Yandex Cloud to emergency mode. - On October 18 and 24, logistics centers of Ozone in St. Petersburg and Omsk were attacked. Fires broke out there, workers were evacuated, goods were hidden from display and orders were redistributed among other facilities. Ozone later reported reserves of 30.1 billion rubles for losses from the attacks, but this figure refers to the report for the third quarter and is not a specific damage estimate for October. - After the attacks on October 2 and 7, the enemy announced the damage and destruction of large tanks in the Samara LPDS, but there were no details. Governors approved fires at the Ryazan refinery on October 15, the Volgograd refinery on October 2, the Omsk refinery on October 8, and the Novokuybyshevsk refinery on October 30. - Fires were also recorded in industrial plants in Michurinsk, Tambov Region, Voronezh, Novomoskovsk, Tula Region, Strelitmak and Strodov, Bryansk Region.