Ukraine-linked strikes shut third Yandex data centre, Vladimir hub down
The third data center in Russia has been torched by Ukrainian long-range drones. The facility is located in the Vladimir region. 80 different cloud services operated by Yandex are currently not available.
Cynthia52I understand one of the data centers targeted took out a large number of Russian bots. Keep up the great work Ukraine! 🫰
Some Random Dave44Russian troll activity on Xwitter is reportedly down by almost half. Purely a coincidence, I'm sure.
Daedalus38Third Yandex one. There are only 1-2 of Yandex data centers left. One is in Moscow. Yandex is backbone of whole russian internet
Medoyid_ua35Yandex Cloud runs drone telemetry and targeting compute, so this isnt just 80 apps down. Ukraine is hitting the kill chain and the ad revenue with the same drone. Third one gone, and Moscow cant rebuild that on a war budget.
Lavonne28This needs an ❌ somewhere. ata center bingo board.
Kevin Kelly15Keep up the good work Zelensky..
Farmer Marv Bot 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🚜🌾56I love this for them!! And I love that they can’t even read this!! Bomb then back to the stone ages!!!!
Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid9Ukraine doing the lord's work. 👍
Wren ☸️🪷🗽⚖️93 down, 2 to go Gotta torch ‘em all!
Helianthus 🔔🇺🇦8Nr. 3 🥳🎉 I can't find his one on the Data Center Bingo Card above! 🤔 Which is actually bad and good at the same time. 😅
joelunchpail.bsky.social8💥 💥 💥 The third russian data center is now toast. Burn bitch.
Claire7This is amazing. This is how you defeat Putin, and by proxy, Trump and the far right. Everything they do and say is built on lies, lies that are spread around the entire world by these 'propaganda' centres. Slava Ukraini.
Robert יעקב✡🟦7There goes half of Elon's bot troll army. Republicans will be so pissed
Jo 🕊️💚5Ukraine doing the whole world a favour. дякую!
Citizen Snippy △4Remember this all comes in response to Russia deciding to strike Ukrainian datacentres in September - they hit BeMobile and Kyivstar facilities. Now they're finding out this is a two way street, only they've put a whole lot of eggs in the Yandex basket.
JohnEvansTW13Yandex is offering customers only a smoke cloud service at present.
⚡Third Yandex data center in Russia shut down following reported drone attack. Russian technology giant Yandex's data center in Vladimir Oblast has been completely shut down following a reported drone attack, Russian state news agency TASS said on Oct. 11, citing the company.
Damian Lynch 🟧 🇦🇺 Rebellion is Mandatory during times of Tyranny36Keep hitting those data centres
Medoyid_ua21Third one down. Yandex Cloud runs the drone telemetry and targeting compute, so the kill chain loses nodes rather than merely having apps go dark. The ad revenue is a bonus.
Furious George 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇺🇸15Yeeeeeees!!!!! Keep it up Ukrainian warriors and defenders! The more you do this over the next few weeks gives you the best chances of not having to go along with Trump’s gaslighting.
Валера | Valera 10This caused 48% of Kremlin-CCP-Musk trôlls to disappear from online
Stockholm Fella6Donald Trump: ”Stop bombing Putin's data centers, or else...”
DJS5Republican propaganda is going to take a hit from these strikes.
Kees van der Leun19As could be expected, data centres are becoming war targets. Yandex is an essential part of the Russian internet and also runs meal delivery and taxis. There's undoubtedly grounds to label it as a military target, but - like with the refineries - it will help in making Russians feel the war too.
Medoyid_ua13Yandex Cloud runs drone telemetry and targeting compute, so this isnt just consumer apps going dark. Third node down means the kill chain is losing racks, not features. Moscow built that stack for cost, not for war.
Rev. Magdalen5How do you say "Putin take Yandex" in Russian?
Todd Kolod💙5🔥Another Russian data center up in smoke.
Rocket Girl Erin 👩🏼🚀🚀🔆🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 HELP! READ PINNED SKEET!4Stop striking at Russian Oil refineries the US president said.... lol
MarschallvonNAFO3Folks and fellas, update your data-center bingo cards :) Not only has yandex changed the fine print, drones are force major now, they can't swap space. Reason, over 95% booked and international ones are sanctioned. For now. Traitor Trump might help in this case too.
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
SurvileSupplicant 🔞38Well r/conservative (a hive of bot scum) has gone silent for hours.
thetatrivia.bsky.social19and Tik Tok and and half of Facebook
Jumpingaround9Musk must be so pissed off..
Sheila O’Flanagan5Possibly more effective than hitting the oil refineries
Magnus Johnson5The vulnerabilities of data centres and their attraction as targets should give all governments pause for thought.
Cornfed3Striking fuel infrastructure is seen as a line crossed, while genocide is apparently acceptable. American idiots.
Jumpingaround152Ukraine doing the good work in two nights! More than Europe combined had the spine to do something about russian interference.. bsky.app/profile/pere...
Jooooohhhh No!88What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
eerie dickgirl35I just looked at what Yandex actually does (I knew it had a search engine and a few other interests) and my God no company should be permitted to do all of that
Tapani Hopkins13Tempting to check if any suspect accounts have suddenly gone quite here. 😎
Leonid Schneider8Ukraine attacked American midterm elections interference!
Torbjørn Barslett 🇺🇦 🌱8Bomb their data centres. Even better than the refineries!
Andrew Gelston6If this is accurate it should be dead easy to identify all their accounts after this Who isn’t posting today hmmm :)
Aurélien Morel (pew pews en tout genre)5Rappel que la Russie essaye de mettre en place un internet fermé (suivant le modèle chinois), ce qui devient difficile si leurs datacenters sont mis offline. Ah bah oui, les calculateurs dans des sites en surface sont des objectifs stratégiques.
Orbinho4Trump will now probably accuse Zelensky of election interference when the Republicans lose the mid term elections because suddenly the amount of pro-fascist social media messages drop off a cliff.
Stephanie Rains 🪼4This is an interesting story - probably worth keeping an eye on in coming days too, cos that data centre isn’t coming back online overnight 😬
The Yandex datacenter in Vladimir received drone sanctions, and is currently being migrated to the cloud. According to the Yandex status board, all Yandex services are completely unavailable in Russia. Maybe targeting our datacenters was a bad idea. Enjoy your digital detox.📵
Medoyid_ua58Yandex Cloud runs drone telemetry and targeting compute, so this isnt just apps going dark. Third DC hit in a week and Moscow cant rebuild that on a war budget. Targeting Ukraines nodes was a choice. The bill.
nevillebott.bsky.social52As Ukraine systematically destroys Russia's internet services it will be really interesting to see how that affects the traffic from social media trolls.
Oucheez24Turth social bout to be real quiet.
jiivee58.bsky.social19Ukraine, take them all down! Burn also every single Russian refinery funding this war. We don't care about Trump’s crooked diesel deal with Putin, hit them where it hurts.
ᚴᚼᛅᚱᛚᛁᛋ ᛋᚬᛘᛘᛁᚱᛋᚴᚬ, ᛏᚱᚬᛚᛏ, ᛁᚬᛏᚢᚾᚼᛁᛁᛘ13......and number of bot attacks in Europe apparently reduced with 50 %. Who would have thought that 😊
Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen13Lot of vaporware now 🤭
Darth Putin454RIP to all my genuine american warm water oblast trump supporters who lived in this data center.
Frode #Fella221Russia has targeted Ukrainian datacenters for a while and Yandex (and other russian datacenter providers) host lots of services for the russian military. This is legitimate targeting and honestly, Ukraine should hammer this type of infrastructure. Russia MUST be defeated.
Oekraïne Vandaag13De derde 🇺🇦 aanval op de datacenters van Yandex sinds 8 oktober:
The Beethoven Group5They can't even see us laugh at them anymore. 😂
Bob Morris4That's a darn shame. No Russia internet. So, no annoying right-wing bots and trolls.
Kévиɴ2j'ai vu quelques comptes X signaler une baisse d'activité des trolls prorusses. Je ne sais pas ce que ça représente au total @flefgraph.bsky.social , tu as vu passer ça aussi ?
Dannie G2We love 🍊 bots about to mysteriously get quiet. Gee, they aren't really from Des Moines?
Anna McDuff2Russian bot activity may quieten down after this!
Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia. Yandex says operations at the facility have completely stopped. Disruptions spread across Yandex services and hundreds of third-party companies and municipal services using Yandex Cloud infrastructure. #Russia
Medoyid_ua19Yandex Cloud runs drone telemetry and targeting compute, so this isnt just apps going dark. Ukraine hit the kill chain and the ad revenue with one strike. Moscow built its digital spine in a few giant DCs now sitting inside drone range.
Valpp712Great less bots, less trolls, less disinformation in EU and US Thank you Ukraine 🇺🇦
Mike Ukraine 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 NAFO 69th4These Data Centres clearly need their own Bingo Board on Jake Broe's show. Take them out.
Mopolis4Thats the fourth, I believe. Less propaganda shit to influence the midterms.
Raymond2Big blow for Trump! Trump will lose in Russia!
manita2and nothing of value was lost..
Euan MacDonald33Six of the Best for Fascist Russia's War Economy Even IF Ukraine decided to heed Trump's call for a halt on attacks on Russian oil refineries, Ukraine’s long-range strikes can still refocus on fascist Russia's war-economy bottlenecks by targeting: /thread
Elena Adaal15Knocking out Russian data centers will have positive by-effects because it will hamper the hybrid war efforts of Russia against EU. It would be good for EU and MS to consider this aspect when decisions are made on Ukraine funding packages.
Anka 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦3to poczują nawet w Moskwie 😁
There are major disruptions to the Internet in fascist russia after Ukrainian defenders carried out a long-range drone strike on a Yandex data centre in Vladimir region.
Ukraine has reportedly damaged two Yandex data centres in two days, with Yandex confirming that one site in Sasovo was shut down and parts of a second facility in Kaluga were disabled. The incidents have disrupted some Yandex services. A viral Cloudflare chart appears to show a sharp fall in...
Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈13...a measure of Russian automated traffic, but its methodology and any causal link to the strikes have not been independently established. It is therefore too early to claim that Russian bot operations—or US election interference capacity—have been significantly disrupted.
atchijov.bsky.social1More! Shut them all down. We can really do without Putin’s bot army. And let’s watch carefully how it affects “popularity” of far right around the world.
Unintended consequences. According to cloudfare, the targeting of Yandex data centres by Ukraine has resulted in a massive drop in russian bots. Could this have an impact on the American mid term elections?
Tee10Elon lost 40% of Twitter traffic
Peter8I'm sure Musk will pick up the slack.
Adrian Bowyer6I'm not so sure it's unintended. Tor is susceptible to tracing if a large volume of data comes from a single location, and I'm sure both the Ukrainians and places like GCHQ are right on that.
Colleen1Could it also reduce the value of X?
1/3 The biggest news of the night was Ukraine's 3rd strike on a Russian data centre. All have been Yandex centres, which is kind of the Russian equivalent of Google, with apps such as Yandex Pay, Maps etc. Also, Ukraine has now hit the 3 Yandex 'supercomputers' developing AI.
Tim White402/3 This graphic gives you an idea of the scale of the effect of the new hit on Yandex. There are many more firms than this affected too. Yandex Taxi, which was completely disabled, now claims it is working, but with delays & glitches! Data re-routing is difficult for Russia.
Melody Lee Lacy1I love it when the returning fire suddenly stops after the third hit 🎯
