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Drone attack shuts Yandex Vladimir data centre
Yandex halted its Vladimir data centre after a drone attack disrupted services across Russia and neighbouring countries.
What happened
Yandex suspended operations at its data centre in Vladimir after a drone attack on October 11. The outage disrupted cloud infrastructure and services including taxis and payments in Russian cities and neighbouring countries. The company reported no staff injuries and gave no timetable for restoring the facility.
Numbers
- 3 centresYandex centres hit within a week — Including Vladimir
- 4 countriesNeighbouring countries reporting service problems — Beyond Russia
- 0 injuriesStaff injuries reported by Yandex — At the Vladimir facility
Questions
- What did Yandex advise customers?
- The company advised users to activate disaster-recovery plans while its platform operated in emergency mode and engineers assessed remaining infrastructure.
- Why did one site affect users widely?
- The Vladimir facility hosts Yandex Cloud’s ru-central1-a availability zone, linking the shutdown to services used across multiple locations.
- How were drivers affected?
- Some taxi drivers could not log into the app or contact passengers, leaving them unable to confirm or complete rides.
- What preceded the Vladimir attack?
- Drone strikes had hit Yandex facilities in Sasovo on October 8 and Kaluga the following day.
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The catch
Coverage does not independently identify the attackers or confirm the extent of physical damage inside the facility.
Yandex gave no restoration timetable.