Part of Russia's Escalating Strikes on Ukraine · 20 stories · since Sep 26 · newest 9m ago
Ukraine's Yandex data-center strikes spark disputed claim of Russian bot collapseUkrainian drones strike Sberbank's Balakovo data center
7 Oct 14 12:29 AM · 2d ago · 22 articles · 1 video · 51 posts · 4 comments · 8 sources · development 7 of 8
Ukraine expanded its campaign beyond Yandex, hitting a newly built data center supporting Russia's largest bank in Balakovo, Saratov region, with at least one drone flying directly into the facility's entrance.
“Ukrainian attack drones struck Russia's Sberbank datacenter in Balakovo this morning... At least one Ukrainian attack drone flew directly into the front entrance of the facility.”
@Osinttechnical, OSINT account · x ↗Volodymyr Zelensky Ukrainian presidentYandex Targeted Russian tech companyGossiTheDog Cybersecurity researcherLukasz Olejnik Cybersecurity/OSINT researcherevacide Mastodon commentator/researcher
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What was reported 7 claims about this development
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first by Financial Times, 2d ago · also Meduza EN, FT
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3 outlets How Ukraine's Strikes On Data Centers Disrupted Taxis, Shopping, And Business In Russia And Beyond
first by RFE/RL, 2d ago · also Le Monde EN, Kyiv Independent
2 more headlines
- Ukraine strikes on Russian data centers disrupt online services Le Monde EN · 2d ago
- No, Ukraine's strikes on Yandex data centers didn't cripple Russian influence ops Mastodon · 2d ago
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first by The Bulwark, 1d ago
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first by Politico Europe, 1d ago
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first by Al Jazeera, 2d ago
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first by Ars Technica, 6d ago
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first by Daily Sabah, 7d ago
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BTW this isn’t the first time Elon Musk has personally intervened to help the Russian military kill Ukrainian civilians. Starlink denies this, but Reuters presents compelling evidence that he ordered engineers to shut off access during a counteroffensive in 2022.
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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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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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"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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🚨 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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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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# 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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So the last strike took down some russian payment methods, let’s see how this strike on the biggest russian bank’s datacenter works out
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It’s not the first time. 2025: “During a pivotal push by Ukraine to retake territory from Russia in late Sept 2022, Elon Musk gave an order that disrupted the counteroffensive and dented Kyiv’s trust in Starlink…”
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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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Please oh great Lord let this be the End of days for social media bots in Russia. Please send them to algorismic hell.
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Remember this event that also disrupted Ukraine on the battlefield?
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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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Anecdotal evidence was nice - reddit felt similar to how I remember it feeling circa 2019. Honestly, hit them again.
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Ukrainian drones strike data center of Russia's biggest bank
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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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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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@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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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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🔴 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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A Ukrainian overnight attack reportedly targeted a data center under construction belonging to Russian state lender Sberbank in Balakovo in Saratov Oblast, deputy chief executive Alexander Vedyakhin said on Oct. 14. https:// kyivindependent.com/ukrainian- drones-reportedly-hit-sberbank-data-center-in-russia/ # Ukraine # Russia
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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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Ukrainian drones struck a Sberbank data center in Russia. Meanwhile, Kyiv says Western partners failed to warn it of Russian missile strikes, and SpaceX has unexpectedly restricted Starlink terminals used by Ukrainian forces at the front. https:// meduza.io/en/feature/2026/10/1…
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