
A drone attack caused a fire and disrupted the Russian tech giant's services in the Ryazan region.
An unprecedented Ukrainian drone strike targeted a Yandex data center in Sassovo, Ryazan region, causing a fire, service disruptions and a fall in the company's shares on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
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kyiv has intensified its strikes on Russian territory in recent months in response to the Russian offensive in Ukraine that began in February 2022.
A Ukrainian drone strike on a data center of Russian tech giant Yandex, the first known attack of its type, caused a fire and disrupted its services in the Ryazan region, the company told AFP on Thursday.
Yandex, nicknamed the “Russian Google,” is the leading Russian-language search engine and is widely used in Russia for services such as taxis and deliveries. It is also dominant in the Russian-speaking world. “A drone attack caused a fire in the Yandex data center in Sassovo, affecting part of its infrastructure,” without causing any casualties, the flagship Russian digital technology company said.
“The roof of a company caught fire”
Pavel Malkov, the governor of the Ryazan region, located southeast of Moscow, for his part reported on Telegram an attack by two Ukrainian drones and indicated that “the roof of a company caught fire” in the Sassovo area. “The data center has completely stopped working and some Yandex services may be inaccessible to users,” the company also told AFP. Videos posted on social networks, not verified by AFP, show thick columns of black smoke rising above a burning roof.
The Downdetector site specializing in tracking internet outages recorded an increasing number of problem reports from users on Thursday. kyiv has intensified its strikes on Russian territory in recent months, particularly on energy and logistics infrastructure, claiming that this is a just response to Moscow's devastating strikes almost daily since the launch of the Russian offensive against Ukraine in February 2022.
This strike on Yandex comes after several massive Russian attacks on Ukrainian food and medicine warehouses, bridges, telephone operators and data centers. On Wednesday, Russian strikes left 30 dead in Ukraine, including 22 in the same residential building in Prylouky (north), gutted by a missile. On Thursday, Yandex company stock prices were falling on the Moscow Stock Exchange after the attack. Ukrainian authorities have not commented at this stage.
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