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Its own statements confirm serious damage at its Sessovo location during the night of October 7th into October 8th.

They also confirmed attack on their Kaluga location on October 9th, and finally an attack on their Vladimir location during the night of October 10th into October 11th.

Now the company said Sasovo and Vladimir stopped operating while parts of Kaluga's infrastructure were disabled.

These are all stemming from Ukrainian attacks against Russian infrastructure in this ongoing war.

And for the record, these were data centers, you know, basically buildings that contained a whole bunch of computers that are simply running services.

A nondescript building? That's the exact reality in Russia after Ukrainian attack drones systematically struck Yannick's data centers.

Firepoint FP1 drones targeted Yannick's largest facility in Kaluga right after hitting the Sasevo hub, causing widespread digital chaos.

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across russia and neighboring countries like kazakhstan and serbia

Over the course of the last week, Kyiv has hit two Russian Yandex data centers.

Yandex is really Russia's answer to Google, and both of these plants in Kaluga and Ryazan hit on consecutive nights, on the 8th and 9th of October, s- south and southeast of Moscow.

This is Ukraine's reply to a similar campaign of Russian strikes against its own data centers, which had caused brief internet outages in Ukraine.

Both sides appear to be doing this at this stage to try and simply cut people off from the internet, to limit, to inhibit ordinary life.

Two of Yandex's three AI supercomputers are there.

October 9th, Kaluga, 63 megawatts, Yandex's largest.

Several modules completely disabled, Yandex says.

Firepoint, a Ukrainian drone maker, says its FP-1 drone struck it.

The 4th, Michitishi, near Moscow, was not hit.

Sasevoy, October 8th, the damaged roof marked in red.

Kaluga, October 9th, the data center.

Vladimir, October 11th, the fire that night.

The disaster recovery needed disaster recovery.

The next night it was Kaluga, Yandex's biggest data center in the Grabtsevo Industrial Park, finished only this year.

Two of the Yandex data centers hit.

This did not come out of nowhere.

And finally, Ukrainian drone strikes on October eighth and ninth reportedly damaged two of the five data centers operated by Russian technology giant Yandex, disrupting its AI chatbot and other online services.

Ars Technica reports that the strikes targeted facilities in Russia's Sasovo and Kaluga regions as Ukraine retaliated against Russian attacks that have disrupted Ukrainian data centers, mobile phone services, and internet connectivity.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the strikes as a high-precision, symmetrical response to Russia's attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.

Reporting for Cybercrime Radio, I'm David Browie.