Overview
- Yandex said on Sunday that a drone damaged its Vladimir data centre and that operations there have been completely suspended while teams assess damage and work to restore services.
- Alexander Avdeyev, governor of Vladimir Oblast, confirmed a drone hit on an infrastructure facility that caused a fire and prompted evacuations but reported no injuries.
- This was the third reported strike on Yandex facilities in four days following attacks on sites in Sasovo and Kaluga, which together have taken major AI compute and cloud modules offline.
- The outages have affected both consumer apps and cloud services, with reports of disruptions to taxi bookings, payment and retail apps, Yandex Cloud computing and AI APIs such as YandexGPT and unstable remaining configurations.
- Analysts and outlets frame the strikes as part of a reciprocal campaign between Ukraine and Russia targeting data centres, and verification of some imagery and damage estimates is still ongoing as restoration timelines remain unclear.