Oct 15, 2026 · 12 min · 6 segments
Ukraine knocked three Yandex data centres offline in four days, and Zelensky says the internet got "easier to breathe." Did the strikes actually hit Russia's disinformation machine, or did everyone…
It caused a fire that reportedly nobody was hurt, but the data center was shut down completely.
By the evening, October the 8th, Yandex said that it didn't know whether the equipment could be restored, which also reportedly included two supercomputers that were of pretty significant value to the company.
The extent of the damage and of infrastructure was still being assessed, but.
Disruptions were reported to services supported by Yandex, particularly government and state websites, including the Russian railway system and banking websites.
So just a bit of background.
They reportedly destroyed or damaged at least eight data centers in the last few weeks, with the Russian Defense Ministry calling these strikes a forced digital detour.
It caused a fire that reportedly nobody was hurt, but the data center was shut down completely.
By the evening, October the 8th, Yandex said that it didn't know whether the equipment could be restored, which also reportedly included two supercomputers that were of pretty significant value to the company.
The extent of the damage and of infrastructure was still being assessed, but.
Disruptions were reported to services supported by Yandex, particularly government and state websites, including the Russian railway system and banking websites.
So just a bit of background.
They reportedly destroyed or damaged at least eight data centers in the last few weeks, with the Russian Defense Ministry calling these strikes a forced digital detour.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
