Overview
- A drone attack on Thursday, October 8, set fire to Yandex’s Sasovo data centre in Ryazan and forced the site to stop operating, and the company said the facility houses two supercomputers used for its AI work.
- Yandex reported on Friday, October 9, that a second data centre in Kaluga had modules disabled by a drone strike, marking two hits in two days and prompting partial service outages and investor losses.
- Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed overnight strikes on facilities tied to missile launches and rocket-fuel production, naming targets that include the Barmin Research Institute site, the Redkino plant and a centre for ICBM disposal.
- Service monitors and market data showed immediate civilian effects, with spikes in user complaints to outage trackers, disruptions to some rail and business services, and Yandex shares falling roughly 3–4% on the Moscow exchange.
- Danish intelligence has separately reported Russian sabotage against European firms supplying Ukraine, a sign that kinetic strikes are being matched by hybrid attacks that could disrupt Western supply chains and worsen fuel and tech shortages.