Ukrainian drones struck. Fire in the data center of an important Russian company

The fire broke out in the town of Sasovo on the premises of the Sasta plant, where the Yandex DC data center is located. Sasta devices are used in the Russian defense, aerospace, transport and heavy industries.

Ukrainska Pravda reported that after the attack on the Yandex data center in Sasovo, there was an extensive failure of the company's services. “Power disruptions” were reported. The problems affected computing resources, networks, data storage systems, databases, the Kubernetes platform, cloud services, artificial intelligence, and security and monitoring systems.

The company said it was cleaning up the incident and restoring affected services. At the same time, it said that its key consumer services were not affected.

Yandex runs YandexGPT, one of Russia's leading generative artificial intelligence models.

The attack on Yandex's data center follows a series of Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers in recent weeks.