By Bloomberg News | Updated on Oct 12, 2026 at 02:31 PM
Yandex users in Russia faced widespread disruptions to ride-hailing, navigation and payment services after Ukraine struck several of the technology company’s data centers with drones.
“The Yandex Cloud platform is still operating in a limited mode,” the company said on Monday. Services including its search engine and its AI digital assistant Alisa are gradually coming back online after an outage, although some features remain unavailable, it said in a separate Telegram post .
Ukrainian missiles hit at least three data centers belonging to Yandex in the last week, following a series of similar Russian attacks on Ukraine’s digital infrastructure. The number of long-range attacks by both sides has escalated in recent months. Russia has increasingly targeted grid and transportation systems and was responsible for several deadly strikes on civilians in October as the intensity of its bombing raids grew. Ukraine has expanded its campaign against Russian refineries and, more recently, technology companies.
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Downdetector, which tracks network traffic, reported disruptions on Monday to some Yandex offerings, including payments and email. Yandex, which is a major cloud-computing provider in Russia, listed dozens of the cloud services as unavailable.
The data center strikes disrupted Russian bots that are used to amplify pro-Kremlin messages on social media platforms, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an online address to the Warsaw Security Forum.
Yandex said its Sasovo facility in the Ryazan region remains offline after a strike. A data center in Kaluga, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) southwest of Moscow, was hit on Friday and third one in the Vladimir region was targeted on Sunday.
Russia’s digital development and defense ministries are discussing measures to protect Yandex data centers, Digital Minister Maksut Shadaev told the country’s lower house of parliament Monday, according to Interfax.
Replacing some of the damaged equipment could take as long as six months, Kommersant newspaper reported , citing sources in the industry.
Yandex, often called Russia’s Google, is the country’s largest technology company, offering services including a search engine, ride hailing, e-commerce, cloud computing and artificial intelligence.