Kremlin says government is discussing Yandex disruption after data-centre strikes

The Kremlin said on October 13 that Russia’s government was discussing Yandex’s problems after what Reuters reported as Ukrainian attacks on three of the company’s data centres. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was too early to assess whether users had suffered financial losses from the resulting outages, and that Yandex was taking urgent steps to address the consequences.

How the Yandex data-centre attacks affected services

Yandex said its Sasovo data centre was seriously damaged overnight on October 7–8 and shut down completely. A drone attack on its Kaluga centre on October 9 put part of that site’s infrastructure out of service, the company said. Yandex reported no employee injuries at either site and said it was working to keep services running, but could not give a reliable restoration timeline at the time of its statement.

Meduza reported that the Sasovo disruption affected some Yandex services and websites of companies using its infrastructure, including Russian Railways and MegaFon. Al Jazeera reported that a third attack, on October 11, shut down Yandex’s Vladimir data centre and left several services unavailable. Yandex warned that the configuration of its remaining resources was unstable, according to that report.