Ukrainian drone strikes disable two major Yandex data centers

Two major Russian Yandex data centers were knocked offline by Ukrainian drone attacks in October, disrupting one of Russia's largest data centers in Kaluga and forcing a shutdown at the Vladimir facility. These incidents caused widespread outages across Yandex-run services, including search, payments, cloud platforms, navigation, and e-commerce, affecting millions of Russian users and businesses. Yandex's supercomputer 'Galushkin' at the Vladimir site was also disabled.

• Kaluga data center housed up to 63 megawatts capacity
• Vladimir facility ran a Top 500 supercomputer, 'Galushkin'
• Outages affected payment apps, maps, e-commerce, and more
• Yandex cloud service disruptions hit major Russian companies