Yandex says its Vladimir data center was damaged in a drone attack and has been completely shut down, with some services unavailable to users. Reuters and ABC News reported the company’s statement on October 11.
What Yandex reported
The company said no one was injured, but services were disrupted. Reports named products including Alice, Yandex Music, Telemost and Yandex Home, while monitoring channels cited a wider list of affected cloud components. That larger service count has not been independently verified and may change as Yandex updates its alerts.
ABC News reported that the Vladimir incident followed disruptions at Yandex facilities in Ryazan and Kaluga. Reuters reported that the Ryazan site housed two of the company’s three supercomputers used for training its AI model, raising questions about geographic concentration and backup capacity.
Responsibility remains unconfirmed
The incident has been described by some outlets as a Ukrainian drone attack, but Ukrainian authorities had not publicly confirmed responsibility in the reporting reviewed for this article. Readers should distinguish the company’s confirmed outage statement from claims about who carried out the attack.
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Sources: Reuters Yandex report · ABC News report · NV coverage