Ukraine Targets Russian Tech Infrastructure with Drone Strikes on Yandex Data Centers

Ukraine conducted drone strikes on multiple Yandex data centers in Russia, disrupting cloud computing, artificial intelligence systems, consumer applications, and government-linked data services. The attacks hit facilities in the Vladimir region, Kaluga, and Sasovo near Moscow — with the Sasovo site housing supercomputers central to Yandex's AI development. Outages affected Alice voice assistant, Yandex Music, Telemost, banking apps, and retail applications, with the impact extending to services that use Yandex's cloud infrastructure.