Aleksandr Avdeev

Force in Play

Reported drone damage to local electrical substations

Ukrainian drones knocked out three of Yandex's five data centers between October 8 and 11. All three AI supercomputers went down, disrupting taxi, banking, music and cloud services used by millions in Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia. Yandex moved customers to rival clouds, waived fees through the end of October, and reports say repairs could take months.

Updated Oct 18