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Flash·Safety & Risk·2026-10-09 08:09

Drones Hit Yandex Data Center, Forcing Russia's Top AI Company to Suspend Operations

Yandex, Russia's leading AI and technology company, confirmed that drones struck its major data center in the Ryazan region, sparking a fire and forcing a full suspension of the facility's operations — the first major attack on a Russian data hub since the conflict began.

HIMIAO Horizon·2026-10-09 08:09·1 min read

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Illustration of the Yandex Ryazan data center after the strike

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  1. Update: Yandex said its data centre in the Vladimir region was damaged in a drone attack and completely shut down, the third major centre taken out of action in a few days; no one was injured and some services are unavailable.

What happened

According to Reuters, Yandex said on Thursday that drones hit its large data center near Sasovo in the Ryazan region, causing a fire. The company has fully suspended the facility's operations and is dealing with the consequences while restoring affected services.

On its Yandex Cloud website, the company reported electricity-supply problems in one data center "zone" and advised customers to use other zones. It said its core consumer services were not affected.

Update: Reuters reported on Oct 11 that Yandex said its data centre in the Vladimir region was damaged in a drone attack and completely shut down, with no injuries but some services currently unavailable. It is the third major centre taken out of action in a few days: on Friday, Yandex's data centre in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow was struck by Ukrainian drones and partly put out of action, and a day earlier its Sasovo hub southeast of Moscow was shut down, where two of the three supercomputers used to develop the company's AI models are housed.

Why it matters

Yandex has fully suspended operations at the data center near Sasovo in the Ryazan region, and one Yandex Cloud "zone" has electricity-supply problems; it is the first major attack on a Russian data hub since the conflict began.
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