Overview
- Yandex said a drone strike damaged infrastructure at its Vladimir-region data centre, forced the site to be shut down and made some services unavailable while reporting no injuries.
- The company said this was the third attack on Yandex facilities in four days after earlier reported strikes that damaged a data centre in Kaluga and caused a fire at a Yandex site in Ryazan.
- Users in multiple Russian regions and abroad reported problems accessing Yandex services, affecting search, transport and e‑commerce functions used by millions.
- Moscow's defence ministry said it had attacked a facility in Odessa and accused Ukraine of using data centres for military communications, illustrating reciprocal claims over the military use of civilian infrastructure.
- The strikes show a widening of the conflict into private digital infrastructure and raise legal and humanitarian questions about civilian harm and broader knock‑on effects on transport, delivery and daily services.