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Websites down and bots disabled: The unexpected consequences of bombing data centers

14 October 2026 at 09:34

Ukraine has struck a major blow to Russia’s digital infrastructure. Since last Thursday, Ukrainian drones have carried out a series of attacks that destroyed three large data centers belonging to Yandex — known as “the Kremlin’s Google”— on the outskirts of Moscow. The Yandex Taxi ride-hailing app and the group’s payments service, Yandex Pay, have been temporarily taken offline. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy even said the bombings disabled Russian bots.

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A member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps salutes next to a drone during a parade on September 18.
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