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Ukraine hits Russia's Sberbank data center as bot-shutdown claims unravelUkraine strikes Sberbank data center in Saratov region
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A major Sberbank data center in Balakovo, Saratov region, was hit overnight by Ukrainian drones, with at least one drone flying directly into the facility's entrance, per OSINT accounts.
“At least one Ukrainian attack drone flew directly into the front entrance of the facility.”
@OsinttechnicalVolodymyr Zelensky President of UkraineYandex Russian tech company, strike targetSberbank Russian state bank, strike targetFire Point Ukrainian defense companyP. Kallioniemi, Lukasz Olejnik, GossiTheDog, evacide Independent researchers/analysts
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first by Mastodon, 2d ago · also Mashable, Gizmodo, RFE/RL, Le Monde EN, Kyiv Independent, Ars Technica
6 more headlines
- Did Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex data centers silence Russian bots? Mastodon · 2d ago
- Did Ukraine’s strikes on data centers really silence Russian bots? Mashable · 2d ago
- Ukraine's Zelenskyy Claims Strikes on Russian Data Centers Silenced Social Media Bots Mastodon · 2d ago
- How Ukraine's Strikes On Data Centers Disrupted Taxis, Shopping, And Business In Russia And Beyond RFE/RL · 1d ago
- Ukraine strikes on Russian data centers disrupt online services Le Monde EN · 1d ago
- No, Ukraine's strikes on Yandex data centers didn't cripple Russian influence ops Mastodon · 1d ago
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🔥 One more Ukrainian strike on a Yandex data center and “russia’s Google” ceases to exist as a company. Some data may be permanently lost.🧵
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🚨 BREAKING: Ukraine launched a massive overnight drone attack on russia 🔥 A major Sberbank data center in Balakovo, Saratov region, was reportedly hit.
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RE: https:// hachyderm.io/@evacide/11743496 3703286230 It's unsurprising when people still use the term "bots" interchangeably for anything between search engine crawlers, automated accounts like the ones that post the weather every hour, automated accounts that pretend to be real people, real people who are paid to pretend to be other people, and…
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"These measurements show a sharp reduction in automated network activity, but cannot establish whether Russian propaganda bots disappeared or whether damaged infrastructure stopped generating ordinary automated traffic." Yeah, real eye opening.
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Ukrainian attack drones struck Russia's Sberbank datacenter in Balakovo this morning, a newly built complex supporting the Russian banking giant’s computing infrastructure. At least one Ukrainian attack drone flew directly into the front entrance of the facility.
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Rusland burde have indset, at landets datacenterkrig mod Ukraine ville blive gengældt og ramme Rusland selv hårdere.Datatrafik i Rusland er stærkt centraliseret og derfor mere sårbar end i Ukraine, som har decentraliseret og placeret vigtig dataaktivitet i udlandet
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about the endless finger-pointing re: "bombing Yandex servers decreased / did not decrease coordinated inauthentic behaviour online": some people talk about this trying to curb the enthusiasm of folx who celebrate a decrease in "disinfo", pointing out that "bots" also means crawlers, indexers, and pointing out that Russian services were the most…
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Anecdotal evidence was nice - reddit felt similar to how I remember it feeling circa 2019. Honestly, hit them again.
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No, a Yandex cloud malfunction did not take down disinformation/troll bots. It's a dangerous misconception. This is not how it works, not even technically. After Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers, a viral chart showed Russian “bot traffic
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The data center war strikes back #Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with #Ukraine Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable. Jeremy Hsu – 12.10.202
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While many of us want to believe that Ukraine's strikes on Yandex have drastically reduced Russian disinformation, apparently it isn't so. @ rysiek is quoted! https://www. theguardian.com/world/2026/oct /13/ukrainian-strikes-russian-datacentres-online-disinformation-bots
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KYIV INDEPENDENT: No, Ukraine's strikes on Yandex data centers didn't cripple Russian influence ops https:// kyivindependent.com/no-ukraine s-strikes-on-yandex-data-centers-didnt-cripple-russian-influence-ops/ Ukrainian drone strikes against Russian data centers sparked viral claims about a sudden drop in Russian influence operations on social…
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# Ukraine drones struck one of russia’s largest data centers operated by state-owned sberbank. https:// united24media.com/war-in-ukrai ne/ukraine-hits-russias-1-billion-sberbank-mega-data-center-in-new-drone-strike-23416
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Unfortunately the answer appears to be "no". The graphs that have gone viral seem to be search engine spiders and the like, rather than social media activity. BBC News - Is Zelensky right to say data centre strikes have taken down Russian bots? - BBC News https://www. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9y7l0 pm8jkko # russia # russianbots # UkraineWar #…
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A chart claiming Russian bot networks fell silent after Ukraine struck Yandex data centers went viral with 4M+ views. Problem: researchers tracking these accounts found no drop in activity, and the chart's timeline included days that hadn't occurred yet. https://www. implicator.ai/russian-bot-netw orks-kept-posting-yandex-strikes/ # disinformation…
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Nearly 500 Drones Head Toward Moscow as Russian Data Centers and Oil Facilities Face Attacks https://www. kyivpost.com/post/86998?utm_so urce=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Ukraine @ ukraine-thenewsdesk
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@INSIDERUSSIA on YT! Russia's Digital Life in Chaos: Analyzing the Yandex Drone Strikes https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=jo8hPRCtuA0 # UkraineWar # Yandex # Russia # Politics 10/13/26
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⚡ NEWS Ukrainian Strikes on Yandex Data Centres Disrupt Russian Disinformation Ukrainian bombings of Yandex data centres in Russia have reportedly led to a sharp reduction in pro-Russian and far-right populist social media content. Users claim the strikes cut off Russian disinformation bots, marking a... 📰 https://www…
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🔴 BREAKING Ukrainian Drone Strike on Saratov Region Ukrainian drones struck the Saratov region in Russia, located more than 100km into Russian territory. The regional governor confirmed that one person was killed in the attack, marking a significant escalation in cross-border drone operations. 📰 https://www. aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2…
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Bot isn't that bot after all https://www. theguardian.com/world/2026/oct /13/ukrainian-strikes-russian-datacentres-online-disinformation-bots
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RE: https:// cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog /117435047238592484 Uh. He accuses others of confusing search bots with social bots, then makes the same kind of mistake himself by treating bot farms as the whole of propaganda operations. Yandex executives were sanctioned by the EU in 2022 for hiding information about the war, promoting state media in…
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In illustration on the dangers of ceding digital sovereignty to a war-like neighbour, clouded cloud conditions in Moscow have triggered outages in the Stanland ... Digital service apps in Central Asian countries linked to Russian IT firm Yandex are malfunctioning after its data centers inside Russia were hit by Ukrainian drone attacks. According…
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KYIV POST: Nearly 500 Drones Head Toward Moscow as Russian Data Centers and Oil Facilities Face Attacks https://www. kyivpost.com/post/86998 Russian officials said nearly 500 drones headed toward Moscow overnight, disrupting airport operations. In Balakovo, residential buildings damaged, while OSINT analysts reported possible damage to industrial…
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Guardian quotes Amil Khan of Valent "Our platforms are still monitoring Russian social networks across the world and there is no discernible change in their posting patterns … Yandex datacentres have no practical connection to social media bot farms" and also fedi's own @ rysiek with a succinct explanation of the different kinds of "bot"…
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