Ukrainian drones attacked the Yandex data center in the Ryazan region

A fire occurred in a Yandex data center located in the Ryazan region as a result of a drone attack, the Russian company confirmed. Yandex warned that some of its services may be unavailable to users.

“There were no injuries, specialized services are on the spot eliminating the consequences. The work of the data center has completely stopped,” the Yandex press service told the BBC Russian Service.

Authorities in the Ryazan region previously reported that two UAVs were shot down over the region on Thursday night. According to the region’s governor, Pavel Malkov, as a result of a drone attack in the Sasovo district, “the roof of one of the enterprises caught fire, and windows were broken in several private sector houses.” However, he did not specify which company he was talking about.

The Astra publication (in the register of “foreign agents”) reported on Thursday morning that a fire broke out on the territory of the Sasta machine-tool plant in Sasovo, Ryazan region. On the territory of this enterprise there is one of the Yandex data centers, which opened in this place in 2014.

The Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ claims that the territory of the enterprise was hit, after which a large-scale fire broke out.

The Sasta machine tool plant produces equipment, including for the needs of the defense industry, and has been under international sanctions since 2022.

According to RBC, Yandex quotes at the beginning of the main session on the Moscow Exchange fell by more than 3% amid reports of an attack on the company’s data center in Sasovo.

Previously, the Ukrainian military did not strike Yandex facilities.

At the same time, the Russian military carried out several strikes on Ukrainian data centers in September, threatening Kyiv with a “digital detox.” The Russian defense department then said that the data centers attacked in Ukraine “ensure the processing and transmission of intelligence data in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”

On September 25, the Russian military attacked the data center of the Datagroup company located in Kyiv. The Ukrainian company then stated that all the company’s services continue to operate from backup sites. The next day, Russia struck the Cosmonova data center in Kyiv. After this attack, the broadcast of several TV channels was interrupted, as the data center stopped working.