Russia's Yandex says data centre in Vladimir area shut down after drone attack

Smoke billows from Yandex's Sasovo hub, one of the company's five large data centres, after a fire following a drone strike forced the suspension of operations at the site, which hosts tens of thousands of servers, Sasovo, Russia, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video on Otober 8, 2026. SOCIAL MEDIA/via REUTERS

MOSCOW, Oct 11 (Reuters) - ⁠Russian technology and AI company ⁠Yandex said on Sunday that its ‌infrastructure had been damaged in a drone attack, resulting in the complete shutdown of its ​data centre in the ⁠Vladimir region.

No one ⁠was injured in the attack, but some ⁠of ‌Yandex's services are currently unavailable to users, the company ⁠said.

This is the third major data centre ​to ‌have been taken out of action ⁠in the ​last few days.

On Friday, Yandex, which is heavily involved in Russia's AI ⁠development and is sometimes called "Russia's ​Google", said its data centre in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow had ⁠been struck by Ukrainian drones and partly put out of action.

A day earlier, a Ukrainian attack shut down ​Yandex's data hub in ⁠Sasovo, southeast of Moscow, where two of ​the three supercomputers ‌used to develop the ​company's AI model are housed.

(Reporting by Gleb StolyarovEditing by Tomasz Janowski)